Words and Music by Keith Getty, Matt Boswell, Jordan Kauflin, Matt Merker, Matt Papa Now and ever, we confess: “I am not my own, but belong-body and soul in life and in death-to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ.” The Christian can sing hallelujah, because Christ assures us of our glorious future. There is no need to shrink back from mentioning death in our hymns, because we know the Living One who has conquered death forever. That’s why a group of songwriters from Getty Music wrote the modern hymn “Christ Our Hope in Life and Death.” Like the Heidelberg Catechism that inspired it, this song is honest about death.
The hope of the resurrection spurs us to sing. That is the only statement that can transform how we live each day and how we prepare for our earthly life to end. “Christ has been raised from the dead” (1 Cor 15:20). Hope comes only in trusting the one who died to take the curse of death and who crushed the power of death by his resurrection. To find comfort in life, we must know how we can face death. Unless Jesus returns first, we will all die.
Why start there? Because death is our common fate. It’s the first article in the Heidelberg Catechism of 1563. “What is your only comfort in life and in death?”įor centuries, believers have learned the Christian faith beginning with that question.
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