Resurrection

Is it "a thing incredible...
That God should raise the dead"?
It is the Bible’s teaching clear—
This resurrection hope.

And so tho death still takes its toll,
The toll of the condemned;
It took the life of one as well
Who had the right to live.

Which right he sacrificed in death
That man might ransomed be;
That life Christ gave he took not back,
His perfect human life.

And these life rights to Justice given
Shall lift from man the curse.
And tho to some incredible,
God’s power shall raise the dead.

Poems of the Way