Christ is Risen

The tomb is empty. I live in the resurrection power. It has not always been so. I was lost.

Are you the lost one, the one weighted down with sin? Is your mind dark with condemnation? Has your joy dissipated? Then it’s for you that Jesus gave his life. Jesus came, not for the righteous, but for the sinner (Mark 2:17). For you.

He came for me. He took my sins on himself. God turned his face away because of my sin. This past February while in the desert, God restored to me the gift of peace. Salvation is a gift.

Therefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little” (Luke 7:47). I’ve been forgiven much. I love the One who died and arose for me.

The tomb is empty.  “For ye (I) shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you (me) into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands” (Isaiah 55:12).

“That God should love a sinner such as I        should yearn to change my sorrow into bliss,
nor rest till He had planned to bring me nigh—
how wonderful is love like this!

Refrain:
Such love, such wondrous love!
Such love, such wondrous love!
That God should love a sinner such as I–
how wonderful is love like this!

2 That Christ should join so freely in the scheme,
although it meant His death on Calvary—
did ever human tongue find nobler theme
than love divine that ransomed me? [Refrain]

3 That for a willful outcast such as I
the Father planned, the Savior bled and died,
redemption for a worthless slave to buy,
who long had law and grace defied! [Refrain]

4 And now He takes me to His heart–a son;
He asks me not to fill a servant’s place.
The far-off country wand’rings all are done;
wide open are His arms of grace!” [Refrain).         -C. Bishop

Praying you’ll know “the power of the resurrection” (Philippians 3:10) this Easter season.

Berniece