All the earth celebrates in joyous exaltation,
of the One who by His hand, formed all of the creation.
After winter’s dreary death,
a cold and quiet rest.
An explosion of vivid color by nature’s congregation.
The sun warms the earth, like a mother would her child.
The rain quenches her thirst, with a rainbow’s brilliant smile.
Every flower and every tree,
Dances in the blowing breeze.
They revel in their own beauty and their own perfected style.
Is it by coincidence, or by an outside chance?
Or is it by God’s thought-out plan, divine circumstance?
That when the earth is re-born
The King He was adorned
With the garment of a body that time will but enhance.
The resurrection of our Lord, the Hope of all mankind,
And nature sings His praises too its glory quite sublime.
Who ever knew,
What God would do,
By His gracious Love and time?
His Holy Lamb was slain in pain on cursed and bloody tree.
To the scorn of men, He knew no friend, but only Satan’s glee.
God’s only Son,
Had been undone,
By the ones He came to free.
But the grave it couldn’t hold Him, nor death, nor even hell,
He rose up from the pit, and He’s alive and very well.
By faith we believe,
By grace we receive,
The promise of heaven where one day we shall dwell.
Let everything on earth burst forth in joyful praise,
For the Savior of mankind the Ancient of all days.
Life anew from nature springs,
Christ’s alive, let angels sing,
For us, just like Him, God will one day, someday, raise.
Tertius
Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.
John 12:24
A note about “Revived or Alive”: After a long miserable winter (I do not like cold weather) I was working in someone’s yard on a magnificent spring day. Everything was turning green, birds singing as I was thinking of the soon arrival of Easter and the wonder of it coming at the same time as the earth’s resurrection! There is no such thing as coincidence in God’s universe.