The Day Death Tried to Swallow Life

Easter Sunday was a very bad day for Death.Many godly men and women have found it fruitful to personify death and address it as a character in God’s story — Isaiah, Hosea, Paul, John, John Donne, John Bunyan, to name a few. Following in that long tradition, imagine for a moment what Easter Sunday meant to the ancient enemy of mankind.“My God, into thy hands my soul I give.” A man’s last breath, Death’s gain. His sting bit deep, A deadly cross his bloody fang. Men live, All under the sun