Is there resurrection without life, I
ask?
Jesus, from my eyes, remove the blinding
mask,
Which keeps my eyes from all the full good
You give
With partial truth, I no longer want to live.
Speak to me Jesus, as You spoke long
ago,
When You told grieved Martha, what she did
not know,
You are the resurrection and the life
too,
Having one, not the other, just will not
do.
Open my ears, my eyes and heart Lord Jesus,
For Your quickening word I’m desirous,
To live with half-truth, is in no way Your
style,
And Jesus, I’ve have been living thus, all
the while.
Thank You Jesus, for this blindness removing,
Where truth in me You are planting and proving,
As you use Lazarus complete truth to tell,
And like him, remove all my grave-clothes
as well.
You raised Lazarus and called him from
the tomb,
The grave, for the living, just had no more
room,
Lazarus! Come forth! The dead heard Your
loud call,
And immediately came out, grave-clothes
and all.
You resurrected the dead, all eyes could
see,
But to live Your life, Lazarus was not
free,
Risen, but still bound by the trappings of
death,
Resurrection’s more than receiving life-breath.
Resurrection and life, Jesus must give
both,
One without the other is of little
worth,
For when Jesus raises people from the
dead,
Binding grave-clothes must be loosed
from foot to head.
Amen!
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