Some comments on, jottings arising from,
questions, prayers and hymns to accompany:
Tim Chester, An Ocean of Grace: A Journey
to Easter with Great Voices from the Christian Past (The Good Book Company,
2021)
Book available: https://www.thegoodbook.co.uk/an-ocean-of-grace
All my jottings were shared at http://marclloyd.blogspot.com/ 08/02/2021-04/04/2021
(Comments welcome)
Ocean of Grace (47 & 48): EASTER
SUNDAY – To Wake More Merry (p155ff)
Thank God that Jesus has tamed the old ogre,
death. Our enemy has become a servant who ushers our souls into the nearer
presence of King Jesus. And meanwhile our bodies sleep in the grave as we await
the Resurrection Day. Cemetery means sleeping place or dormitory. And the nap
of our bodies until judgement day is nothing to fear. Death has lost his sting.
We may think of ourselves clothed now (by
grace through faith) not with the fig-leaves (or indeed the filthy rags) of our
supposed works righteousness but in the glorious righteousness of Christ.
Give thanks that what Adam marred, Christ has mended.
Paradise is restored for believers – only better for Jesus will bring us not
just back to The Garden but to the glorious Garden City and to the New
Creation.
Glory, power and praise indeed to Jesus the
crucified and risen one.
Hymn: Jesus Christ is risen today
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMwPEmUMP7U
Words: https://hymnary.org/text/jesus_christ_is_risen_today_our_tri
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Some other hymns which I thought of which I’m
not sure I got round to using:
The King of Love My Shepherd Is
The Lord’s My Shepherd
O Love that wilt not let me go
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