Sweetly Broken

Happy Easter!

From death to life. From enemies to friends. From broken to restored. From hopeless to hopeful. From shame to grace. Easter is the time when Jesus fulfilled his mission to earth by defeating death and providing reconciliation for us to with the Father. History has never seen an event like it. You can ignore it, claim it to be a lie, make up stories to drown it out.

But it happened. And however which way you cut it the world is still defined by those three days almost 2,000 years ago.

Singing of the Cross

Jeremy Riddle’s song, Sweetly Broken, encapsulates the heart of Easter:

To the cross I look, to the cross I cling
Of its suffering I do drink
Of its work I do sing

For on it my Savior both bruised and crushed
Showed that God is love
And God is just

At the cross You beckon me
You draw me gently to my knees, and I am
Lost for words, so lost in love,
I’m sweetly broken, wholly surrendered

What a priceless gift, undeserved life
Have I been given
Through Christ crucified

You’ve called me out of death
You’ve called me into life
And I was under Your wrath
Now through the cross I’m reconciled

At the cross You beckon me
You draw me gently to my knees, and I am
Lost for words, so lost in love,
I’m sweetly broken, wholly surrendered

In awe of the cross I must confess
How wondrous Your redeeming love and
How great is Your faithfulness