Easter week

This is "holy week". It is special to many Christians, and also to me, as we remember the events that occurred over 2,000 years ago: the Last Supper, Jesus' betrayal, crucifixion, and resurrection. It is a sad yet glorious time.

A few years ago, I sang a solo for Good Friday at church, called "Watch The Lamb" by Ray Boltz. It's a song that talks of a person who was in the Holy Land back in the day when Jesus was being crucified. The person talks of watching Jesus carry the cross up to the hill (Golgotha) and seeing how badly beaten and whipped He'd been. I'd rehearsed the song prior to service and was confident I would do a good job.

When I sang the song during service, the power of the Holy Spirit fell on me and the emotion of Jesus' beatings, torture, and horrendous treatment completely overtook me. I was literally weeping as I sang. It was both moving and touching. I tried to imagine how He must have looked as He struggled to carry that cross to the hill where He would hang and die....for ALL of our sins, yours and mine.

(I really had no intention of getting that emotional when I sang the song, but I let God have His way.)

Then on Easter Sunday, I sang the classic "He's Alive" by Don Francisco and was again moved by the Holy Spirit. I just love the message it brings, and how it makes Jesus' triumph over the grave really come to life! The stone's been rolled away, and now Jesus is alive!!

And He still is alive!
PRAISE THE LORD! :)