Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Dec 24 - Christmas Eve Devotion

O holy Child of Bethlehem

Descend to us, we pray

Verse 4 of

O Little Town of Bethlehem

 

Merry Christmas! 

 

Today is a day of cookies and carols. And many of us know the first verse of many carols. Buried, however, in the third and fourth verses are some beautiful poems and wonderful theology. 

 

Enjoy today a few deeper verses ...

 

Are you tired, ill, worried? Verse 3 of “It Came upon a Midnight Clear.”

 

And you beneath life’s crushing load,

Whose forms are bending low,

Who toil along the climbing way

With painful steps and slow;

Look now, for glad and golden hours

Come swiftly on the wing;

Oh rest beside the weary road

And hear the angels sing.

 

Need a Christmas prayer? Try verse 3 from “Away in a Manger.”

 

Be near me, Lord Jesus, 

I ask Thee to stay

Close by me forever, 

and love me, I pray.

Bless all the dear children 

in thy tender care,

And take us to heaven, 

to live with Thee there.

 

Verse 4 of “O Little Town of Bethlehem” offers another prayer ... and reminds us of the purpose of Jesus’ journey. The whole reason the Christ child came to earth was to save us from our sin. 

 

O holy Child of Bethlehem

Descend to us, we pray

Cast out our sin and enter in

Be born to us today

We hear the Christmas angels

The great glad tidings tell

O come to us, abide with us

Our Lord Emmanuel

 

In Christ’s Love,

a guy who sings today

(and loves the excuse

to eat too many cookies)

 

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