Be Ye Glad

Today I was reminiscing about our wedding day that took place almost eight years ago. I heard a song that we played in the prelude to the ceremony. The song is 'Be Ye Glad'. The reason we picked this song as part of our wedding celebration is that it speaks of the happy occassion of Christ taking our sin debt out of the way and (as we see in the following verses from Colossians 2:13-14) nailing it the cross.

When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, 14having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

Here are the lyrics from the song. Wish you could hear the tune as you read the words. Maybe you know how it goes:

In these days of confused situations
In this night of a restless remorse
When the heart and the soul of a nation
Lay wounded and cold as a corpse

From the grave of the innocent Adam
Comes a song bringing joy to the sad
Oh, your cry has been heard
And the ransom has been paid up in full, be ye glad

Oh, be ye glad Oh, be ye glad
Every debt that you've ever had
Has been paid up in full by the grace of the Lord
Be ye glad, be ye glad, be ye glad

So be like lights on the rim of the water
Giving hope in a storm sea of night
Be a refuge amidst the slaughter
Of these fugitives in their flight

For you are timeless and part of a puzzle
You are winsome and young as a lad
And there is no disease or no struggle
That can pull you from God, be ye glad

Oh, be ye glad Oh, be ye glad
Every debt that you ever had
Has been paid up in full by the grace of the Lord
Be ye glad, be ye glad, be ye glad

Oh, be ye glad Oh, be ye glad
Every debt that you ever had
Has been paid up in full by the grace of the Lord
Be ye glad, be ye glad, be ye glad

(c) Michael K. Blanchard, ASCAP, Paragon Music Corp.Gotz Music & Diadem Sky, ASCAP