So I've been realizing something the past few days. Most Christmas songs aren't praising the presents under the tree or the lights hung outside the house or the delicious Christmas candy your mom made for you. Ok, some songs do, but I've been trying to focus on the fact that that Christmas is about a lot more than that.
I really love Christmas, but I tend to get I tend to get caught up in the things the lights and trees and songs make me feel instead of concentrating on what they're really there for. So I've been trying to pay more attention to what Christmas songs are really saying, and the more I pay attention, the more I fall in love with them. Yes, they talk about Christ's birth and give you warm, fuzzy feelings and conjure up images of a happy little family surrounded by angels and stars. But they also talk about the darkness of a world without Christ and about redemption coming, about chains being broken and hope arriving to rescue us from our captivity. They haunt me as they describe the cries of Israel and the longing for a Savior they have yet to see. And they humble me as they rejoice over hope appearing. So I'm really trying to make these songs my hymns of joy that I raise in greatful chorus, my song of praise to the One who gave up everything so that I would know hope and freedom and peace.
I know, it's nothing new or profound, but it's what's been on my mind.
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7 months ago
2 comments:
That's awesome! I tend to enjoy the darker carols--O Come, O Come, Immanuel; What Child Is This; etc.--simply for that reason. They're full of a sense of despair and dread, but then a glimmer of impossible hope.
"For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn..."
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