Filled With Joy No Mind Can Measure

 

Easter

 

Joy against Death

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Tune: Werde Munter (LSB 548)

 

Filled with joy no mind can measure,

Joy no sin can ever stain,

With the gift my faith shall treasure

Through all grief and doubt and pain,

For the Spirit teaches well

That the very gates of hell

Can’t prevail against the blessing

That my heart is now possessing.

 

For my God gives me salvation

From the guilt I see in me;

And to me, his lost creation

He has granted liberty

From my sins that had me bound,

From the darkness all around.

In the light of Christ my Savior

I am freed from death forever. 

 

There is nothing I see in me

That my Lord does not forgive;

With his blood My God did win me,

With his Word he makes me live.

In the flesh of Christ I see

Every sin that was in me

Was destroyed when Jesus suffered

When his life for me was offered. 

 

Now let Satan’s accusation

Fall against my shield of faith

That I raise in jubilation

As I sing of Jesus’ death,

Where the devil’s head was bruised,

And the souls that he abused

Were redeemed by one named Jesus,

Who the poor from sin releases. 

 

Come and join me in my singing,

Let our joy break forth in song!

Faith both love and hope is bringing

To the peace where saints belong,

To the throne of God most high,

For whose love our voices cry:

Praise the Father, Son and Spirit,

Praise his free and perfect merit!

            10/19/14