Good Friday

Today is Good Friday, a public holiday in Singapore.  The Swallow and her family will spend the morning in her local assembly, remembering what the Lord Jesus has done on the cross for everyone.

John 3 : 16 (NIV)
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

For the Swallow, it is a day of rememberance and a day of rejoicing, for although her Lord Jesus died on the cross, He did not remain there.  Instead, He has risen and is alive today, sitting at the right hand of God the Father!  He has promised that He will come back again and the Swallow is looking forward to that day.  In the meantime, she will focus her hopes on that, and with the Lord's help, will live a life that is glorifying to His name.

The Swallow first heard the song 'The Via Dolorosa' when she was a young Swallow in Malaysia, and thought it apt to recall the words of the song for this day of remembrance...

THE VIA DOLOROSA by Billy Sprague & Niles Borop

Down the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem that day
The soldiers tried to clear the narrow streets
But the crowd pressed in to see
The Man condemned to die on Calvary.
He was bleeding from a beating, there were stripes upon His back
And He wore a crown of thorns upon His head
And He bore with every step
The scorn of those who cried out for His death.

Down the Via Dolorosa called the Way of Suffering
Like a lamb, came the Messiah, Christ the King
But He chose to walk that road out of His love for you and me
Down the Via Dolorosa, all the way to Calvary.

Down the Via Dolorosa called the Way of Suffering
Like a lamb, came the Messiah, Christ the King
But He chose to walk that road out of His love for you and me
Down the Via Dolorosa, all the way to Calvary.
The blood that would cleanse the souls of all men
Made its way through the heart of Jerusalem.

Down the Via Dolorosa called the Way of Suffering
Like a lamb, came the Messiah, Christ the King
But He chose to walk that road out of His love for you and me
Down the Via Dolorosa, all the way to Calvary.