Worship that Means More

With all the uncertainty swirling around, I remembered Betsy's words of advice: if you have obligations that you need to dip out of, this takes priority.

I went to our Easter rehearsal, not sure if I was going to stay the whole time. Who can sit and worship when you feel like this?

But what else can you do?

Come awake, come awake, come and rise up from the grave

O death, where is your sting?

O hell, where is your victory? 

O church, come stand in the light 

The glory of God has defeated the night!

I played those chords and sung those words with everything that I am, because I so desperately need that to be true.

The tomb may be full now, but Sunday is coming

The darkness is harsh now, but the light is coming

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. 

All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 

In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.

The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:1-14