Today's promise: He's alive!
Up from the Grave He
Arose!
God released him from
the horrors of death and raised him back to life again, for death could not
keep him in its grip.
Acts 2:24 NLT
Low in the grave He lay, Jesus my Savior! Waiting the coming day, Jesus my Lord!
Death cannot keep his prey, Jesus my Savior! He tore the bars away, Jesus my Lord!
Vainly they watch His bed, Jesus my Savior! Vainly they seal the dead, Jesus my Lord!
Up from the grave He arose, with a mighty triumph o're His foes; He arose a Victor from the dark domain, and He lives forever with His saints to reign, He arose! He arose! Hallelujah! Christ arose!
Christ Arose Robert
Lowry (1826-1899)
Always hearing music
It's hard to match this
hymn for sheer drama. The first stanza begins dismally, then strikes a note of
hope, and then the chorus explodes with joy. The music itself comes rising up
from the depths and celebrates on high.
Robert Lowry wrote both
the words and music to this hymn in 1874. At the time, he was professor of
literature at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and pastor of a nearby
church. He had written other hymn tunes and texts as he practiced his passion
for poetry and song. "Sometimes the music comes and the words
follow," he explained once. "I watch my moods, and when anything
strikes me, whether words or music, no matter where I am, at home, on the
street, I jot it down. My brain is sort of a spinning machine, for there is
music running through it all the time."
Our "Resurrection
Week" readings are adapted from The One Year® Book of Hymns by Mark Norton and
Robert Brown, Tyndale House Publishers (1995). Today's is taken from the entry
for April 9.
Content is derived
from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation and other publications of Tyndale
Publishing House
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