Japan Nuclear Plant Post-Earthquake
I spent far too long last week looking for a link to embed the awesome Sandra McCracken’s version of Go to Dark Gethesemane (the process was complicated by the struggle to remember how to spell Gethsemane:)…and then I ran out of time. In the end, I decided to point you to High Street Hymns’ version. It’s not nearly as upbeat as McCracken (Indelible Grace) version, but it draws me to slow down and gaze at all that lies before us in our world through the Redeemer’s eyes. What a great season to remember — HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT HAVE LIFE! But that’s not all, HE ROSE — RESURRECTION MEANS REDEMPTION HAS BEGUN! Can’t you just see with him this world longing for redemption?
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High Street Hymns’ Go to Dark Gethsemane
Go to dark Gethsemane, ye that feel the tempter’s power;
Your Redeemer’s conflict see, watch with Him one bitter hour,
Turn not from His griefs away; learn of Jesus Christ to pray.
See Him at the judgment hall, beaten, bound, reviled, arraigned;
O the wormwood and the gall! O the pangs His soul sustained!
Shun not suffering, shame, or loss; learn of Christ to bear the cross.
Calvary’s mournful mountain climb; there, adoring at His feet,
Mark that miracle of time, God’s own sacrifice complete.
“It is finished!” hear Him cry; learn of Jesus Christ to die.
Early hasten to the tomb where they laid His breathless clay;
All is solitude and gloom. Who has taken Him away?
Christ is risen! He meets our eyes; Savior, teach us so to rise.
