Rise

There is a song with the lyric "l get

knocked down, but I get up

again..."

In turn I like the image of a

Phoenix rising from the ashes. It

makes me think how we Christians

should never accept defeat.

Indeed our Lord has conquered

that evil trinity of the world, the

flesh and the devil. He made a

spectacle of death. His enemies

had him marked down as defeated,

crushed forever, but he rose again

in victory and still rises.

He too encourages us, though

storms may rage, to rise from the

rubble. To run and not grow

weary, to walk and not faint, to

mount up on wings like eagles!

So rise up church, roar like a mighty

lion!

ln Christ we have the

victory!

(This post was also kindly featured as a guest post in the Primitive Quaker Journal, The Call).