Because He Lives

It's an old song typically associated with The Gaither Vocal Band and their infamous gatherings. It's a song I grew up hearing in church. It's a song that still stirs my heart.....especially as we go into this Easter season.

Because He Lives

I can face tomorrow,

Because He Lives

All fear is gone,

Because I know

Who holds the future,

My life is worth the living just because he lives.

Jokingly my husband and I were doing a rousing rendition of this for our daughters tonight and an amazing thing happened. As I was singing I realized that this song is more than just about death and resurrection. It's about living.

Most days I am so caught up in the doing of life that I forget that I am supposed to be living it.

And I forget the source of life is Christ, especially when I am feeling depressed or sad. This song's last verse talks about the pain of death and "crossing over," but what about the pain of life? I have been full enough of the pain of life to wish for death and have felt as if I could not face tomorrow and its worries and bothers.

God Sent His Son, they called him Jesus,

He came to love, heal and forgive.

He lived and died to buy my pardon

An empty grave is there to prove my Savior lives!

His living and dying to buy my pardon is amazing......it's grace incarnate. But what he also came - as this song puts it - to love, heal and forgive. Because he lived to love, heal and forgive I can face the future with hope.