Words, Song & Hope on Good Friday
April 6, 2012 § 2 Comments
At the Lamb’s high feast we sing Praise to our victorious King,
Who hath washed us in the tide
Flowing from his pierced side;
Praise we him whose love divine
Gives his sacred blood for wine,
Gives his body for the feast,
Christ the Victim, Christ the Priest.
6th century Latin Hymn
“…we’re Easter people living in a Good Friday world.”
Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.”
Galatians 6:14
“The crucifixion was the shocking answer to the prayer that God’s kingdom would come on earth as in heaven.”
N.T. Wright, Simply Jesus
Let us love and sing and wonder
Let us praise the Savior’s name
He has hushed the law’s loud thunder
He has quenched Mt. Sinai’s flame
Let us love the Lord who bought us
Pitied us when enemies
Called us by His grace and taught us
Gave us ears and gave us eyes
He has washed us with His blood
He has washed us with His blood
He has washed us with His blood
He presents our souls to God
Let us wonder grace and justice
Join and point to mercy’s store
When through grace in Christ our trust is
Justice smiles and asks no more
He who washed us with his blood
He who washed us with his blood
He who washed us with his blood
Has secured our way to God
Let us praise and join the chorus
Of the saints enthroned on high
Here they trusted him before us
Now their praises fill the sky
He has washed us with his blood
He has washed us with his blood
He has washed us with his blood
He has washed us with his blood
He will bring us home to God
John Newton
unfinished1 
Simply put, and so true. Another home awaits us.
“On Earth as it spins in the heavens!”
Thy will be done.
Peace,
UT
So glad for the cross. So glad for Easter.
(I recognize that cross. 🙂 )