The Greatest of Days

This is one of my all time favorite Resurrection Songs. It is by Andrew Peterson, entitled: 

"High Noon"

High noon in the valley of the shadow 

When the deep of the valley was bright 

When the mouth of the tomb 

Shouted, "Glory, the Groom is alive" 

So long, you wages of sin 

Go on, don't you come back again 

I've been raised and redeemed 

You've lost all your sting 

To the victor of the battle 

At high noon in the valley 

In the valley of the shadow 

Now the demons, they danced in the darkness 

When that last ragged breath left his lungs 

And they reveled and howled 

At the war that they thought they had won 

But then, in the dark of the grave 

The stone rolled away 

In the still of the dawn on the greatest of days 

High noon in the valley of the shadow 

When the shadows were shot through with light 

When Jesus took in that breath 

And shattered all Death with his life 

So long, you wages of sin 

Go on, don't you come back again 

I've been raised and redeemed 

You've lost all your sting 

To the victor of the battle 

High noon in the valley of the shadow 

Let the people rejoice 

Let the heavens resound 

Let the name of Jesus, who sought us 

And freed us forever ring out 

All praise to the Fighter of the Night 

Who rides on the light 

Whose gun is the grace of the God of the sky 

High noon in the valley of the shadow 

When the shadows were shot through with light 

When the mouth of the tomb 

Shouted, "Glory, the Groom is alive" 

So long, you wages of sin 

I said go on, don't you come back again 

I've been raised and redeemed 

All praise to the king 

The Victor of the Battle 

High noon in the valley 

In the valley of the shadow 

"Oh Death, where is your sting? Oh Grave, where is your victory?"

A most extraordinary day, the greatest of days, when something new happened on the earth. If the wages of sin is death, then how could one who had no sin die? If the strength of sin the destruction of a relationship between God and man, how could the GodMan be there on that cross? Why all this talk about death?

There were thousands of people who died that day, two who shared the same hillside. Why was this Man´s death so extraordinary? Why does it make such a difference in my life?

If the wages of sin is death, then His death was the most unjust event in the history of time. If the wages of sin is death, then this one of all mankind, should have never seen death. 

Yet there He was, dying. How can this be? What kind of God allow such an event? No, what kind of God predetermines such an event? This is absurd. 

Whose gun is the grace of the God of the sky. 

"Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." 

Yet how can I arise from the dead if I am yet in my sins? The wages of sin is death, and I am a sinner. Talk about the walking dead! 

"He made Him, who knew no sin,

to be sin for us. 

That we might become the righteousness of God

in Him."

Happy Resurrection Day!