He’s Alive!
We did not believe it when the women came to say
They had seen our Master at the break of day!
We looked at them with pity for we thought they’d gone mad
Not surprising really with the trauma we had had!
They went to tend the body shortly after dawn
Only to discover that our Masters corpse had gone!
One of them then told us that she’d spoken to our Lord
She was quite ecstatic but we knew she’d lost her gourd!
Some of us then went to look and found the empty tomb
Someone had pinched the body and we were filled with gloom.
Simon was insistent that an angel had been there
Claiming He had risen there was no need for despair!
We thought the body had been snatched maybe by temple guards
So we just locked ourselves away and quivered like true
cowards.
Suddenly our Lord was there standing in the room!
Our instinct was to scatter like dust before a broom.
Then He spoke quite calmly and wished us all good day
And reminded all of us what He’d been wont to say.
“I told you all that I’d be killed but that I would return.
I knew no one believed me, for you have much to learn!
I will not be with you long but you must never fear.
When I have departed the Helper will come near.”
We could not believe at first but as he moved around
We could tell it was our Lord plainly safe and sound.
The wounds that he had suffered were there for all to see
And it was no spectre for he joined us eating tea!
Our joy could know no limit as we learned to understand
That His death and resurrection were exactly as God planned!
He told us we should go back home and he would join us there
For He had a mission for us and we needed to prepare.
He was no longer with us and we didn’t see Him go.
It was the strangest feeling that we will ever know!
But one thing was quite clear to us, He’d risen from the
dead
Just like He told us He would do, exactly as He’d said!
We did not know what this would mean but we were filled with
glee
As we left Jerusalem and returned to Galilee.
The turn round was remarkable that men so full of fear
Suddenly were filled with joy and grinned from ear to ear!
Would that we could share this joy with all around the world
For we are Jesus’ followers with banners all unfurled!
Would I had the will power and the drive to do His work
And not be weak and feeble and be inclined to shirk!
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