The Wonder of the Cross – Easter Day – Hallelujah What A Saviour
When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth…
When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth…
It seems that after all of the long journey from Bethlehem to Egypt, Nazareth to Galilee, Jerusalem to Golgotha, we finally end up where we began. ‘Do not be afraid!’ But this time the angels and our risen Lord provide an antidote for our fear. For all of our fears.
With [the women] we are called to a persistent and practical faith-filled life which looks each night to be with our Beloved at dawn-break. And, as we fill our emptiness with devotion we too will hear Him call our name from the Garden Tomb
However I mark this Salvation Day, in worship, in passion plays, in processions, I know that by day’s end I am loved. May you know that same deep deep love which called our Beloved to the Cross that He might die for love of our love.
In these last few days of Lent step closer. Try to stand at the cross and remember what it was the first time you stood there as a lost sinner.
Then, as the Laodicean Christians were encouraged, listen for the knocking of the Light of the World on your heart’s door and let love in.
To understand the force of any Scripture, a good plan is to put it into opposite words….
Cherished by the One we cherish we are transformed and enabled to love the unlovely with the same love which turned our inner beast into beauty.
When two people who love the Lord misunderstand each other and get into a tangle, there is generally a mistake which a few honest words will clear up.
Easter has always been BOGOF – Buy One Get One Free.
…not deserving this the greatest of all gifts, have the love of the One Who Loves us Best lavished upon us not once but twice! We are saved by the death of our Beloved and we are saved even more by His Resurrection.
O Breath of Life whose winds blow about me now, let me be all open to Thee today.