DO YOU KNOW THE ROAD AHEAD?

Bill Gates has written a book with the title “The road ahead”.

“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back”,  is a short Chinese proverb.

I don’t need to tell you that the road ahead is into the ……. grave. You know that already, and I know also that you don’t want to hear about it. But please keep on reading what the hymn writer Robert Lowry says about the Lord Jesus Christ in the hymn CHRIST AROSE, which he wrote  and composed in 1874. In the chorus he says:

“Up from the grave He arose, with a mighty triumph over his foes; He arose a Victor from the dark domain, and He lives forever with His saints to reign: He arose! He arose! Hallelujah! Christ arose!”

Read the chorus again and notice especially the words “He lives” and also the exclamation marks.

How do we know that the Lord Jesus Christ lives?

The author and composer Alred H. Ackley is answering that question in his hymn HE LIVES.  The chorus of that hymn goes like this:

“He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus  lives today! He walks with me and talks with me along life’s  narrow way. He lives, He lives, salvation to impart! You ask me how I know He lives? He lives within my heart.”