As Bonnie and I had our devotion this morning God showed me this.  I pray this will bless you as it did me.

Easter

I sit in my tomb locked in the dark and bound up in my sin

I try to coax light from a little lamp to keep darkness away

But I cannot move within the coil of my addictions and sin

Ever tighter they grow as they grow in my life killing me

I cry out to God afraid of death and yet afraid of God too

But God hears my voice and the ground begins to shake

It is a sound like an earthquake as the tombs stone moves

Light peeks in the small opening and blazing light invades

Warmth floods my soul and Another blood flows in me

The grave wrapping start to loosen and I can finally move

The stone slowly rolls and Light begins to flood my soul

More and more my grave clothes begin to fall from me

I can stand on the sure ground beneath me and walk

My throat cries out in praise to the One setting me free

As the stone rolls and clears the way I take small steps

I still get tripped by my grave clothes even as they fall away

Each step is slow and I fall again but still head for the light

As each wrap of the cloth fall it gets easier to take a step

Step after step leads me into more Light as I step upward

I look back and get dizzy from the journey and I stop

Maybe it is safer in that dark tomb which is comfortable

For the Light hurts my eyes so accustomed to the dark

But a Voice speaks to me “Child Arise” so I turn back

More grave cloths fall from me at my decision to trust

Even though the path is harder the Way gets easier

I come out of the tomb and the Light floods my soul

I cry and I weep as I realize the darkness I dwelt in

I realize I was more afraid to live than I was to die

But now God’s Life flows through my veins and soul

The tomb calls me back to a comfort not real I know

For the Light is reality and the tomb is a dark death

I step away from the tomb and looking back I see

I see a cross on the ground above my tomb rising

Blood dripping down from the cross to my stone

And now the stone breaks and falls in two parts

Whose blood is this that has set me free to live

At the top of the cross I read “King of the Jews”

A voice speaks His name into my heart and soul

“Jesus” He tells me and I fall to my knees and cry

I weep for a love that would bleed for such as I

I weep for my sin that caused Him to die for me

I fall on my face and weep at Our shame and pain

A Voice says quietly to my soul “My Child Arise”

I look up and the Light burns the dross from me

The grave clothes fall away some more from me

“Walk with Me” the voice says and I rise to go

“For My name means Emmanuel and I Am with you”

“At least until you that one day you come with me”

I continue to follow Him and more falls away

Each day brings me closer to Home to see Him

To really see Jesus who rolled my stone away!!!                      6/28/17