It is interesting to me how God uses people to stir and encourage other people. Especially believers with each other. Once again someone has encouraged me to keep posting to this site and with Good Friday and Easter upon us, it was easy to choose what to post this week. Today is a 2 for 1 ... the second is actually quite different than what I normally write because it is an abstract poem. However, it is, I believe, the most profound (even if it is the shortest) poem I have ever written. But before the glory of the resurrection our Savior had to come to.....
The Hour
All
of time eternal
Without beginning and without end
Hinges on the hour
When broken fellowship Christ would mend
The Creator of the universe
King and Lord of time and space
Became a lowly servant
To rescue Adam’s race
From His birth in the manger
To the Garden of Gethsemane
All in preparation for the hour
When He would hang upon that tree
God Himself in human flesh
All the miracles and love
If He had stopped short of that hour
Would not be enough
But in complete surrender
To His Father's plan
He suffered and cried “it’s finished”
And gave eternal life to man
In all of time eternal
That one hour saves the lost
For the destiny of all man kind
Hinges on the cross
John 17:1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven,
and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify
thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
This
thought never ceases to amaze me. I am
in awe and wonder at the very idea that the God of all creation would come in the form of the created so that He
could buy back what He had made in the
first place. And to think that all of
His interaction with mankind and all that He accomplished
between the manger and the cross was done in preparation for that one moment in time when He could say “IT IS
FINISHED” and our debt could be paid in full!
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Pondering the Resurrection
If not for the resurrection...
The church
is no more than a social club…
Believers
no different than the atheists…
and Christians
no better or worse off than the rest of a dying race...
BUT GOD raised
HIM from the dead,
And that
changes everything!
Acts 13:28-30
And though they found
no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.
And when they had
fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and
laid him in a sepulchre.
But God raised him
from the dead:
I love the holidays, all the
holidays. The magic of Christmas time,
the great family time spent at Thanksgiving, even the patriotism of the 4th
of July. But Easter, at least for me, is
on a different level than the rest. I
wake up nearly every Easter morning with a deep sense of appreciation and
wonder at what was accomplished that first Easter morning. The power of the resurrection is the
difference between Christianity and every other belief system in the world
because the author and finisher of our faith IS ALIVE!
