Sunday, April 5, 2015

God’s blessings on each of you this Easter day

 

Good Easter morning to all of you. May your day be filled with love and peace and may we all remember what this day celebrates.

The old hymn ‘He Arose’ comes to mind this Easter morning and is one of my favorite Easter hymns. It is so triumphant, full of the wonder and beauty of what God did for us. He came into humanity as a baby, Jesus is His name, He grew up and gave His life for us. He conquered sin and death, so that we’d have life eternal, and life more abundantly here and now as we trust in Him for all that we need. He has promised to never leave or forsake us, He is with us always. One day we will see Him and know Him as He is, God, our Creator, the Great I AM. How wonderful that will be.

We have all sinned and come short of God’s glory. But by His grace, He saves all who believe in Him. Our sins are washed away and we are made perfect in Him.

Here is an upbeat version of this old hymn.

Christ Arose, Low in the Grave He Lay

 

Happy Easter

FlowerLady

21 comments:

Carol- Beads and Birds said...

Happy Easter, Rainey.
Have a Blessed day.
xx, Carol

GretchenJoanna said...

Christ is risen!
We sang "Christ Arose" at my husband's funeral last week. Christ is risen indeed! Happy Easter!

Connie in Hartwood said...

Happy Easter to you, too!

Nancy J said...

Easter Greetings to you, Lorraine, down here autumn is in true colour, leaves falling, morning sunshine arriving later, nights cooler, a fire to warm us one colder day. enjoy your spring blooms as they colour every part of your delightful garden.

Kit said...

I love this hymn, in fact I sang it with my Em this morning in church. It is our favorite. I am so glad you posted this. I shared it with her. :) Have a very Happy Easter! Love, Kit

Jane said...

What a blessed assurance for us all. Enjoy your Easter evening, Rainey!

Hugs
Jane

Mama Mess said...

Happy Easter and Christ's Love to you!

Julene said...

He is Risen! Thanks for sharing the song! I miss the older more familiar music. Have a good week!

Ruth Hiebert said...

Beautiful song. We sang it in church this morning.Hope your day was great.

Nancy's Notes said...

Hope your enjoyed your day with many Easter blessings!
Nancy

Darcie said...

A very Happy and Special Easter greeting to you too my friend! We have SOOO much in Him, don't we? So very thankful for it all.

Gary said...

Good morning Rainey,

We had the kids and grandkids over for the day yesterday, and so are still recovering our energy haha!
It's a good hymn. Hope you are feeling better now.

RockWhisperer said...

I love that old hymn, we used to sing it at the Dewey Methodist Church. All the men would boom out "Up From The Grave He Rose!" That was quite a triumph, not only in the message but in the singing too!

Hope you had a nice Easter. Hugs xoxoxo

Susan said...

Beautiful! Hope you had an enjoyable day and are feeling better.

One Woman's Journey - a journal being written from Woodhaven - her cottage in the woods. said...

Family gathering yesterday, a wonderful time but now
wonder how long it will take for me to recover?
I love that song..
Take care
from the edge of the woods in Tennessee.

Anonymous said...

Glad to see a post from you as I was getting worried you were still under the weather.

I hope you had a wonderful Easter, Rainey.

Love and Hugs,

eli

Dewena said...

Thank you for this favorite Easter hymn and for posting this beautiful message. I'm reading it on Easter Monday and it is a blessing.

Debbie Harris said...

Oh Christ is risen in deed! I love that hymn and enjoy singing it often as it has power behind it. What a victory!
Let us rejoice in Christ our Savior.
Blessings, Debbie

Karen @ Beatrice Euphemie said...

A beautiful hymn! I hope you had a blessed Easter, my dear. xo Karen

Betsy Banks Adams said...

Hi there, Hope you are feeling better. I have missed your posts recently and was worrying about you--and praying for you.

Hope you had a nice Easter. We did --and went to the state park restaurant for their Easter Buffet.. It was EXCELLENT --but I ate WAY too much... ha ha

Take care...
Hugs,
Betsy

Rue said...

I hope you had a lovely Easter! :)