Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Let Earth Receive Her King

Joy to the World , the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room,

And Heaven and nature sing,
And Heaven and nature sing,
And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature sing.

IMAGINE with me for just a moment...off in the distance on a cold winter's night, a cry of a newborn is heard. He's not just any newborn. He is God wrapped in flash, Emmanuel, God With Us. The Great I AM. Creation's child. Yahweh. The Savior of the World. Our Redeemer. At this moment, he is a helpless infant looking for warmth and the love of a mother and father. And as Mary and Joseph turned their focus to meeting the needs of this little one, what must all of creation have been doing? Can't you just IMAGINE that every rock, bird, animal, all of God's creation was rejoicing in its own way that the Savior had entered the world. If we could just hear with our human ears what Heaven must have sounded like as all of the focus was upon this child, this moment, this birth. Excitement had to fill the air as earth received her King. And don't you think that God's creation was always in tune with its Creator? I IMAGINE so...

Joy to the World, the Savior reigns!
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy.



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