Some of us bide at the passover feast
   With Pentecost all unknown;
The triumphs of grace in the Heavenly place
   That our Lord has made our own.

If the Christ who died had stopped at the cross
   His work had been incomplete;
If the Christ who was buried had stayed in the tomb,
   He had only known defeat.

But the way of the cross never stops at the cross,
   And the way of the tomb leads on
To victorious grace in the Heavenly place,
   Where the risen Lord has gone.

Marvin Lewis