I don’t think that I have ever had a more vivid sense of heaven meeting earth than at today’s memorial worship service for Cheryl Woodson at French Camp’s Bethsaida Baptist Church. The Scriptures read by Pastor Alex Lawson which he had studied with Cheryl, the two Bluegrass spirituals about faith in the resurrection sung before the call to worship, the classic hymns, the beautifully sung “Beulah Land”, and my message on the living hope that Christians have by faith in Christ from 1 Peter 1:3-9 highlighted the great expectations of the inexpressible joy we will have at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Our departed sister had asked us to sing “It is Well with My Soul” as we walked through the front door of the church behind the casket, like a boat bearing the elect lady on the river of life up the stream. With the congregation walking in the breezy, bright sunshine up the winding path to the cemetery on the hill, the heavens were beautiful with their blue vault and ivory palaces-like clouds, so expressive of the joy of our salvation ready to be revealed. Gathered at the grave, after the Scriptural promises and prayer were given, we sang “Amazing Grace.” Then something I have never had the privilege of seeing before, the sons, grandsons, and sons-in-law in their dress clothes took shovels and buried their own dear Memaw…until “the earth will give birth to the dead.”
Posted on: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 03:48:17 +0000
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