Living Hope

While listening to this sermon I began to think about the song Living Hope by Phil Whickham. More specifically the chorus and there is this big build section that is super powerful. The lyrics are as follows:

Hallelujah, praise the One who set me free
Hallelujah, death has lost its grip on me
You have broken every chain
There's salvation in Your name
Jesus Christ, my living hope

Then came the morning that sealed the promise
Your buried body began to breathe
Out of the silence, the Roaring Lion
Declared the grave has no claim on me
Then came the morning that sealed the promise
Your buried body began to breathe
Out of the silence, the Roaring Lion
Declared the grave has no claim on me
Jesus, Yours is the victory, whoa!

I have a pretty good feeling that when this song was written, he was looking at this passage that we heard about today. There is something about music that really helps things to sink in for me, it might be the emphasis and the builds on certain words or just the pure fact that it becomes stuck in my head and I spend the rest of the day singing it. Whatever it is, I hope this song sinks in over and over, because this is something that I definitely need to be reminded of fairly often. 

Yesterday as I processed yet another disappointment to come out of this season, I realized that the reason why I am going on this emotional roller coaster of sorts, is the fact that with my mouth I may say that I am trusting God in this and placing my hope in him, but in reality I'm struggling to actually practice this with my heart. For in placing hope in the things that I do and/or won't get to do, I become crushed over and over again when they don't fulfill me. I don't know if anyone else is feeling this with me, but may we remember that the spirit of this virus may be strong, but Jesus is stronger. For in his name there is salvation, authority and power over the evil one.