Beautiful Scandalous Night

I was just in North Carolina for Ginny Ficker's wedding to her now husband Mark Evans. While I was there I stayed with one of my closest and dearest friends, Torrey and her husband Jay. I love visiting them; it's equivalent to walking in an open field while inhaling pure oxygen and talking with Jesus (I know that's a lot of things but its the best way I can think of to describe it). Their relationship to each other and to the Lord is of constant encouragement to me. One of the other reasons I love visiting them is going to their church. They attend North Wake which is in the town of Wake Forest, NC. It is a wonderful place full of a community of believers who are all about Christ and seeking his will and glorification. In worship yesterday, they played Beautiful Scandalous Night which is a song that always stirs my heart as I listen to the amazing words that tell of the night He died for us all. The lyrics are below and I love reading over them while I listen and being amazed at the simple fact that we can "go under and be purified", that "we're atoned by His blood and forever washed white".

Go on up to the mountain of mercy

To the crimson perpetual tide

Kneel down on the shore

Be thirsty no more

Go under and be purified

Follow Christ to the holy mountain

Sinner sorry and wrecked by the fall

Cleanse your heart and your soul

In the fountain that flowed

For you and for me and for all

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At the wonderful, tragic, mysterious tree

On that beautiful, scandalous night you and me

Were atoned by His blood and forever washed white

On that beautiful, scandalous night

On the hillside, you will be delivered

At the foot of the cross justified

And your spirit restored

By the river that poured

From our blessed Savior's side

Go on up to the mountain of mercy

To the crimson perpetual tide

Kneel down on the shore

Be thirsty no more

Go under and be purified

~ Smalltown Poets