MORNING GLORY!
Eastertide is full of Wonder which was preempted by Jesus’ trial, suffering and crucifixion – His glory is seen in all of His words throughout His journey to His Glorious Resurrection and after. Search for Jesus’ words in His entire journey. Listen for how His Holy Spirit resonates specific words of Jesus within your soul – use them!
Following is an offering written by Reverend Dr. Dave Peterson that beautifully explains why we want to “Use our Easter Words!” Get ready to be inspired!
Use Your Easter Words
By Dave Peterson
The average person’s vocabulary consists of 60,000 words, but we hardly use most of them. David Brooks claims that just 4,000 of those words make up 98% of our speech. Slice it a little more thinly and you discover that 60% of our speech comes from just 100 words.
Maybe the reason we use so few words is that we think so few new thoughts. The National Science Foundation reports that we think somewhere between 12,000 and 60,000 thoughts a day. And get this, 98% are the same thoughts we thought yesterday. And believe-it-or-not, 80% of those thoughts are negative.
We worry, jump to conclusions, read people’s minds, predict outcomes, over-generalize,
minimize, maximize, blame, judge, shame, regret, and on-and-on and over-and-over.
These past few weeks have been so emotionally exhausting. Dire warnings. Grim statistics. Dark forecasts. Isolation. And these past 6 days of Holy Week have carried on the dark theme. Disappointment. Betrayal. Torture. Death.
But wait, today is Easter!! It’s time to go into your mental library, get down on your knees with a flashlight, and search out the bottom-shelf-Easter-words that suffer from so much neglect. Dust them off and declare them as life’s greatest reality. Even sing them, at the very least in your imagination.
Jesus Christ is risen today, Alleluia!
Our triumphant holy day, Alleluia!
Who did once, upon the cross, Alleluia!
Suffer to redeem our loss, Alleluia!
Hymns of praise then let us sing, Alleluia!
Unto Christ, our heavenly King, Alleluia!
Who endured the cross and grave, Alleluia!
Sinners to redeem and save, Alleluia!
But the pain which He endured, Alleluia!
Our salvation hath procured, Alleluia!
Now above the sky He’s king, Alleluia!
Where the angels ever sing, Alleluia!
Sing we to our God above, Alleluia!
Praise eternal as His love, Alleluia!
Praise Him, all you heavenly host, Alleluia!
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Alleluia!
Teaching a child to speak is hard. A child will often retreat to grunts and tears rather than find the right words. In those moments, the wise parent knows that it’s best to say, “Use your words.”
You’ve got 60,000 words at your disposal. You create a world with the words you choose. Train yourself in every thought and every conversation, to use Easter Words!
Christ is Risen! He is Risen indeed!
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal … And now faith, hope, love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13)
O Lord most high, author of all alleluias, teach us to use the language of Easter and to speak the resurrection words of faith, hope and love. Amen
Go into God’s world in peace
Expect always the unexpected
Anticipate Miracles
Knowing that with God, all things are possible
May the Lord bless you and keep you
May the Lord make His face to shine upon you
May the Lord lift up the light of His countenance upon you
and give you His peace
Happy Easter,
Dave