Easter Song

This was one of my favorite songs as a child. It was a song that a bunch of us in our youth group enjoyed singing all year around. "The Easter Song" just happens to be what it is called. The words are few, but they say a lot.

Hear the bells ringing, they’re singing that we can be born again!
Hear the bells ringing, they’re singing, Christ is risen from the dead!

The angel upon the tombstone said, “He is risen just as He said.
Quickly now, go tell His disciples that Jesus Christ is no longer dead!”

Joy to the world, He is risen, alleluia! He’s risen, alleluia!
He’s risen, Alleluia, Alleluia!

(Acts 2:22-36-HCSB). Men of Israel, listen to these words: This Jesus the Nazarene was a man pointed out to you by God with miracles, wonders, and signs that God did among you through Him, just as you yourselves know. Though He was delivered up according to God's determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail Him to a cross and kill Him. God raised Him up, ending the pains of death, because it was not possible for Him to be held by it. For David says of Him:

'I saw the Lord ever before me;
because He is at my right hand,
I will not be shaken.
Therefore my heart was glad,
and my tongue rejoiced.
Moreover my flesh will rest in hope,
because You will not leave my soul in Hades,
or allow Your Holy One to see decay.
You have revealed the paths of life to me;
You will fill me with gladness in Your presence'

.....God has resurrected this Jesus. We are all witnesses of this. Therefore, since He has been exalted to the right hand of God and has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, He has poured out what you both see and hear. For it was not David who ascended into the heavens, but he himself says:

The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies Your footstool.'

Therefore let all the house of Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah!"

May each and every day of our lives, be a resurrected new life unto Him (Romans 6:3ff). After all, it is His resurrection that makes it all possible.