A Hallelujah Poem

I couldn't quite collect my thoughts this morning to complete this postbut celebrating a risen Redeemer is right on time any time of day or nightHallelujah! Today, Easter, is a day of great joy for those of the household of faithyet, also a day of great sorrow as we mourn for those who reject Him... Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Heb.11:1 Have you ever tried to visualize that morning long ago?The women first, then the disciples, coming to Jesus' tomb while it was still dark!!to find the stone rolled away!! and their Beloved Teacher/Friend/Lord gone! John 20:1-10Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, 7 as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. 8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. 9 (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) 10 Then the disciples went back to where they were staying. Luke 24:1-8On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. 5 In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? 6 He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 7 ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ” 8 Then they remembered his words. While some still doubt, some still believe(Some scorn what some revere)But someday every eye will seeThe One that faith holds dear No trumpet blast that morn to wakeThe world to death’s defeatBut in the hush before daybreakFaith beheld and believed Where death and hell were overthrownWhere love and life prevailedWhere angels rolled away the stoneAnd schemes of darkness failed Where Jesus’ body had been laidWhere guards stood watch in vainWhere Mary looked and wept, dismayedAt what was not yet plain …. There, sorrow’s sobs turned into joyJesus, mighty to save(The One that death could not destroy)Had risen from the grave The power and the glory ofMankind’s Saviour and FriendCovered sin's hopeless debt with love(Conquered hate's vilest deed with love)No thought can comprehend Once and for all our sins He borePray what more do we needThan to praise Him forevermoreFor He is Lord indeed © Janet Martin