I have a confession to make...
I love Christmas music. I love Christmas music all year long. Yeah, I'm one of those guys. But before
you go judging me, I just have one thing to say about it. Just as we sing songs to celebrate the Resurrection at any time of the year, I think the Incarnation of our Savior is also worth singing about at any time of the year. O Come, All Ye Faithful should be just as common as O Happy Day.
With this in mind, it was much to my delight that, as I was eating my breakfast this morning, three Christmas songs in a row came on my shuffled Spotify playlist. The normal reaction the typical person would make to this would be to instantly skip to the next track. But not me. I just sat back, and let the lyrical heralds song their carols of praise over me.
One of those songs, in particular, stood out to me. Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus by Folk Angel began playing and it just took me captive (see video below). "Come, thou long expected Jesus / Born to set thy people free / From our fears and sins release us / Let us find our rest in Thee." Wow! What a powerful paragraph! As I began to listen to this song, I started to remember that the Incarnation was all about my freedom. I am free because the Creator of Everything took on skin and bones in order that he could bear my sin. He became an insignificant, fragile, and dependent little cry-ball so he could rescue all of humanity from the incredibly oppressive power of sin and death. Every time I remember this, it blows my mind!
They went on to sing, "Let every heart / Prepare Him room / And heaven and nature sing / And heaven and nature sing." At this point, I felt the conviction hammering into me. Let every heart prepare Him room... Wow! How relevant this is for my life. So many things are going on in my life that I sometimes allow my heart to be filled up with a hundred different things, and it leaves little room for Jesus. One of the most spiritual things I can do is to take almost everything off my heart's plate and prepare room for the One who deserve my all. Sometimes this looks like saying no to a lot of things, but when I begin to be satisfied with Jesus and experience the unending joy that overflows from my heart, I realize that the more room I prepared for the "long expected Jesus," the more it was worth it.
So I wonder about you. How are you preparing Jesus room? And how are you finding your rest in Him? I encourage you to make this a priority just at He made you His priority when he came as a little baby two thousand years ago so he could set you free.
I love Christmas music. I love Christmas music all year long. Yeah, I'm one of those guys. But before
you go judging me, I just have one thing to say about it. Just as we sing songs to celebrate the Resurrection at any time of the year, I think the Incarnation of our Savior is also worth singing about at any time of the year. O Come, All Ye Faithful should be just as common as O Happy Day.With this in mind, it was much to my delight that, as I was eating my breakfast this morning, three Christmas songs in a row came on my shuffled Spotify playlist. The normal reaction the typical person would make to this would be to instantly skip to the next track. But not me. I just sat back, and let the lyrical heralds song their carols of praise over me.
One of those songs, in particular, stood out to me. Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus by Folk Angel began playing and it just took me captive (see video below). "Come, thou long expected Jesus / Born to set thy people free / From our fears and sins release us / Let us find our rest in Thee." Wow! What a powerful paragraph! As I began to listen to this song, I started to remember that the Incarnation was all about my freedom. I am free because the Creator of Everything took on skin and bones in order that he could bear my sin. He became an insignificant, fragile, and dependent little cry-ball so he could rescue all of humanity from the incredibly oppressive power of sin and death. Every time I remember this, it blows my mind!
They went on to sing, "Let every heart / Prepare Him room / And heaven and nature sing / And heaven and nature sing." At this point, I felt the conviction hammering into me. Let every heart prepare Him room... Wow! How relevant this is for my life. So many things are going on in my life that I sometimes allow my heart to be filled up with a hundred different things, and it leaves little room for Jesus. One of the most spiritual things I can do is to take almost everything off my heart's plate and prepare room for the One who deserve my all. Sometimes this looks like saying no to a lot of things, but when I begin to be satisfied with Jesus and experience the unending joy that overflows from my heart, I realize that the more room I prepared for the "long expected Jesus," the more it was worth it.
So I wonder about you. How are you preparing Jesus room? And how are you finding your rest in Him? I encourage you to make this a priority just at He made you His priority when he came as a little baby two thousand years ago so he could set you free.
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