Carol: “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” – Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
Tune: MENDELSSOHN
This is my favorite Christmas carol, so I'm using it today and tomorrow!
Charles Wesley had a way of putting his theology into poetry that still makes sense, long after his pen left the paper. His hymns almost always get at the heart of the gospel, and this one is no exception.
Charles Wesley had a way of putting his theology into poetry that still makes sense, long after his pen left the paper. His hymns almost always get at the heart of the gospel, and this one is no exception.
Today's hymnline tells us that Christ was “pleased as a man with
us to dwell.” It was his pleasure to step from heaven to earth, to take on
flesh, to live among humankind. I don’t think he and the Father had to come to
some kind of deal or that he left heaven kicking and screaming.
As the Philippian Hymn says: “Christ, being
in very nature God, did not consider equality with
God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness. And being
found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient…”
Taking on human likeness, appearing as a man, humbling himself, obeying,
becoming a servant. Emmanuel. God WITH us.
And loving every minute of it – taking
great delight in living among those whom his Father had created and placed on
the earth.
I, for one, am glad he did.
Amy
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