What Hope Does He Bring?

What hope does He bring?

The singing of a Christmas hymn before communion was intentional. If you really listen to the words of many of our Christmas carols and hymns you will notice that much more than just Christ’s birth is sung about. There is also the Joy and Hope that He is to bring as well.

Take for example a few of the following traditional carols:

O Holy Night

Long lay the world, in sin and error pining

‘til He appeared and the soul felt its worth

A thrill of Hope, the weary world rejoices

For yonder breaks, a new and glorious morn.

Fall on your knees! Oh, hear the angels voices.

Oh night divine, oh, night, when Christ was born.

O Come, O Come Emmanuel

O come, O come Emmanuel, and ransom captive Israel

Who sleeps in lonely exile here until the Son of Man appears

Rejoice! Rejoice!

O Little Town of Bethlehem

O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie

Among your deep and dreamless sleep the silent clouds go by

Yet in your dark streets shineth

The everlasting light

The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight. (1)

What hope does He bring?

I am continually amazed at how God brings together and uses opposite concepts to reveal Himself in and through in order to reconcile us back to Himself. Think about this for a moment:

The Creator becomes the created…

The Infinite becomes the finite…

The Eternal becomes the temporal…

The Son of God becomes the Son of Man…

The Apostle Paul follows this same concept when he wrote, “He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21, Holman Christian Standard Bible).

The Righteous becomes sin so that the sinful become righteous…

What hope does He bring?

The one in the manger brings us the hope found only in the Cross…

(1) These specific Christmas carols were taken from: Greg Koukl, Fast Forward Thru The Bible (http://www.str.org).