{"id":101,"date":"2009-04-09T17:50:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T23:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2009-06-12T10:57:41","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T16:57:41","slug":"resurrection-poetry-by-da-carson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/resurrection-poetry-by-da-carson\/","title":{"rendered":"Resurrection Poetry by D. A. Carson"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Easter Sunday the sermon will focus on Luke 24:13-47. When I mentioned that to my wife she pointed me to D.A. Carson’s devotional, For the Love of God: A Daily Companion for Discovering the Riches of God’s Word<\/a><\/em>. On the reading which covers Luke 24, Carson gives this poetic account of the chapter:<\/p>\n

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They came alone: some women who remembered him,<\/p>\n

Bowed down with spices to anoint his corpse.<\/p>\n

Through darkened streets, they wept their way to honor him\u00e2\u20ac\u0161<\/p>\n

The one whose death had shattered all their hopes.<\/p>\n

“Why do you look for life among the sepulchers?<\/p>\n

He is not here. He’s risen, as he said.<\/p>\n

Remember how he told you while in Galilee:<\/p>\n

The Son of Man will die and rise up from the dead.”<\/p>\n

The two walked home, a study in defeat and loss,<\/p>\n

Explaining to a stranger why the gloom\u00e2\u20ac\u0161<\/p>\n

How Jesus seemed to be the King before his cross,<\/p>\n

How all their hopes lay buried in his tomb.<\/p>\n

“How slow you are to see Christ’s glorious pilgrimage<\/p>\n

Ran through the cross,” and then he broke the bread.<\/p>\n

Their eyes were opened, and they grasped the Scripture’s truth:<\/p>\n

The man who taught them had arisen from the dead.<\/p>\n

He was a skeptic: not for him that easy faith<\/p>\n

That swaps the truth for sentimental sigh.<\/p>\n

Unless he saw the nail marks in his hands himself,<\/p>\n

And touched his side, he’d not believe the lie.<\/p>\n

Then Jesus came, although the doors were shut and locked.<\/p>\n

“Repent of doubt, and reach into my side;<\/p>\n

Trace out the wounds that nails left in my broken hands.<\/p>\n

And understand that I who speaks to you once died.”<\/p>\n

Long years have passed, and still we face the fear of death,<\/p>\n

Which steals our loved ones, leaving us undone,<\/p>\n

And still confronts us, beckoning with icy breath,<\/p>\n

The final terror when life’s course is run.<\/p>\n

But this I know: the Savior passed this way before,<\/p>\n

His body clothed in immortality.<\/p>\n

The sting’s been drawn: the power of sin has been destroyed.<\/p>\n

We sing: Death has been swallowed up in victory.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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