I discovered this song today while listening to Keith and Kristyn Getty's Christmas album, called Joy: An Irish Christmas. Read these words and ponder them.....it's amazing! This is what the world waited for, down through the dark halls of history, through the sin and the pain and the mess. This is what we wait for in retrospect during this season of Advent, season of waiting for the coming. This is the reason we have real hope and joy as we wait for His coming again! This is what we celebrate at Christmas. Immanuel. The fullness of God WITH us, IN us!
Let's stop asking ourselves why God allows such pain in this world. We are broken through our own doing. Some of the evil and darkness here is far beyond comprehension. But let's look at the suffering God Himself chose to take for us. He came in His FULLness, to bear the FULL weight of our sin and brokenness, to give us FULLNESS OF LIFE! Forever! This is why we can celebrate, NO MATTER WHAT comes our way. For where God is, everything is grace.
Read. Wonder. Worship Him.
"And the Word became flesh, and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. From the fullness of His grace, we have all received one blessing after another. For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ." John 1:14,16,17
Fullness of Grace (Keith and Kristyn Getty)
Fullness of grace in man's human frailty
This is the wonder of Jesus
Laying aside His power and glory
Humbly He entered our world
Chose the path of meanest worth
Scandal of the virgin birth
Born in a stable, cold and rejected
Here lies the Hope of the world
Fullness of grace, the love of the Father
Shown in the face of Jesus
Stooping to bear the weight of humanity
Walking the Calvary road
Christ the Holy Innocent
Took our sin and punishment
Fullness of God, despised and rejected
Crushed for the sins of the world
Fullness of hope in Christ we had longed for
Promise of God in Jesus
Through His obedience we are forgiven
Opening the floodgates of Heaven
All our hopes and dreams we bring
Gladly as an offering
Fullness of life and joy unspeakable
God's gift in love to the world
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