I won't say that I've bought into the commercialism, I haven't, but I feel like the commercialism has made me numb. I haven't been excited about Christmas for several years. I'm a very big believer in no Christmas decorations/music/movies until after Thanksgiving. Last year the local radio station started playing nothing but Christmas music on November 1; needless to say I found a different radio station. This year I've been listening to audio books while driving so my radio doesn't go on anymore. But it’s the middle of December, Christmas day is less than two weeks away, and something has been on my mind for about a week.
Music is something that draws me in. I'm not a singer or a musician, I sing to my girls but they are my only audience. A few years ago I started working on a book, looking at the messages in old hymns, I wrote the preface and one chapter, but the beauty of a message expressed through song stirs something in me that I wish I was able to communicate.
Last week I saw a video on YouTube, a Christmas song called "Noel" by Lauren Daigle.
Love incarnate, Love divine
Star and Angels gave the sign
Bow to babe on bended knee
The Savior of humanity
Unto us a child is born
He shall reign forevermore
Noel, Noel
Come and see what God has done
Noel, Noel
The story of amazing love
The light of the world
Given for us
Noel
Son of God and Son of Man
There before the world began
Born to suffer, born to save
Born to raise us from the grave
Christ the everlasting Lord
He shall reign forevermore
Noel, Noel
Come and see what God has done
Noel, Noel
The story of amazing love
The light of the world
Given for us
Noel
Noel, Noel
Come and see what God has done
Noel, Noel
The story of amazing love
The light of the world
Given for us
Noel
The part of this song that really stands out to me is "Come and see what God has done". Christmas is about what God has done. Man sinned, messing everything up. God immediately began His plan of restoration. Stage one involved Abraham, and the beginning of a nation. Stage two involved Christmas. God who was there before the world began was born to suffer and born to save. He was born to raise us from the grave and reign eternally as Lord. Christmas is the story of amazing love. A plan millennia in the making, unfolding for centuries, came closer to fulfillment on the first Noel (Christmas).
God showed His amazing love by giving us the light of the world. The star and angels announced His birth, and the world moved one step closer to redemption because of what God had done. That is the message of Christmas, come and see what God has done. That is Christmas, part 1.
TO GOD ALONE BE THE GLORY!
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