In Christ Alone...

There is a beautiful hymn that has the refrain, "In Christ Alone." This week, as I’ve been preparing my heart and spirit to honor Easter and the joyous occasion of Jesus’ resurrection from death, I’ve tried to really focus my attention on Christ alone. It is for no other reason that we celebrate this day--no other reason has the power to break the chains of sin and to offer freedom that is incomprehensible to the human mind. The love that Christ poured out on that day, and continues to pour into our lives, is the only place we can turn to and find rest. I urge those of you who have not made a commitment to Christ to do so now--to understand how "wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ" (Ephesians 3:18).


"In Christ Alone" by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend

"In Christ alone my hope is found;
He is my light, my strength, my song;
This cornerstone, this solid ground,
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm.
What heights of love, what depths of peace,
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease!
My comforter, my all in all—
Here in the love of Christ I stand.

In Christ alone, Who took on flesh,
Fullness of God in helpless babe!
This gift of love and righteousness,
Scorned by the ones He came to save.
Till on that cross as Jesus died,
The wrath of God was satisfied;
For ev’ry sin on Him was laid—
Here in the death of Christ I live.

There in the ground His body lay,
Light of the world by darkness slain;
Then bursting forth in glorious day,
Up from the grave He rose again!
And as He stands in victory,
Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me;
For I am His and He is mine—
Bought with the precious blood of Christ.

No guilt in life, no fear in death—
This is the pow’r of Christ in me;
From life’s first cry to final breath,
Jesus commands my destiny.
No pow’r of hell, no scheme of man,
Can ever pluck me from His hand;
Till He returns or calls me home—
Here in the pow’r of Christ I’ll stand."