Saturday, April 3, 2021

Snapshots of Faith: Living Hope


 

 

“5 And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee.” Luke 24:5-6

 

I love music and am so thankful to be part of worship team at our church. There are so many Christian songs that I just love and am thrilled when we get to sing them on a Sunday morning when I happen to be scheduled for worship team. And there are some songs that are just fine, but just aren’t in my top list of favorites. Once in a while suddenly, while singing and focusing on the words of the song, I fall in love with the song and am greatly encouraged or blessed by.

One song that we sing is “Living Hope.” It has never been in my top 10 of all time favorites. To me it was a good song with good lyrics that explained the Gospel message but never felt strongly one way or another about it. Until recently.

The verse that really struck me is:

Then came the morning that sealed the promise
Your buried body began to breathe
Out of the silence, the roaring lion
Declared the grave has no claim on me
Jesus, yours is the victory, whoa!

In the Chronicles of Narnia movie “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” Susan and Lucy are sitting, crying over the lifeless body of the great lion Aslan who had just let himself be sacrificed to save the life of Edmund. As the girls start to leave the stone table where Aslan died, the earth shakes and the stone table cracks. They look back and in the radiant glow of the morning sunlight, Aslan appears—fully restored and fully alive! Now when I sing that verse, I have that visual of Jesus, the roaring lion, coming back to life after having been put to death. I can only imagine what it was like to actually have been there, seen our Savior die, be buried and then after three days come back fully alive!

Growing up reading about and being taught about Jesus and the Bible, sometimes it is all so familiar that the wonder and amazement of it all can be forgotten. Let us never forget the sacrifice He made for us. But oh let us never forget or become to complacent over the fact that He lives! He came back to life! He won the victory! He is risen! He is risen indeed! Our living hope!

 

The song Living Hope 

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