“No more we doubt thee… life is naught without thee.”

Hymn: “Thine Is the Glory” – Edmond Louis Budry (1854-1932)
Tune: MACCABEUS

Did you see the movie DOUBT with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Viola Davis, etc.? Based on a stage play, the film gave us just about as good a dramatic definition of “doubt” as could be expressed. Basically, as long as there was a sliver of doubt remaining, we could not trust the priest – or ultimately anyone else in the cast! We left the theater unsure on just about every level.

This resurrection hymn gives us the opportunity to express our full trust that Jesus is who he claims to be… and that trust leaves no room for doubt – even a fragment. Implied is the possibility that we may have had our uncertainties before, but now that he has risen from the bonds of death, with great conviction we join the long-held confession “Jesus is Lord!”

Without him, life is worthless. A later-scribed gospel song says, “Without him I could do nothing… I’d surely fail… I would be drifting, enslaved, hopeless, lost.” If Christ were stolen from us – yanked away – our lives would be so very altered, and we would calculate our existence at zero.

Without reservation, without misgiving, without a shadow of a doubt: this is how we must come to Christ. No qualms, no hesitation. We place our faith in the One who when we know him personally leaves no room for doubt. Confidently we consider our lives worthwhile, never even pondering the possibility of being a naught-y nobody.


                                  Exciting Use of This as a Closing Easter Hymn