MERRY CHRISTMAS, ALL YE SAINTS!!!
The lyrics to ( Joy To The World) this well known loved Christmas carol believe it or not, is really not about the birth and incarnation of Christ Jesus, rather it is about His second coming. There is no better time, than during this season of remembrance of our Savior, Lord and King's first coming, that we ought to be reminded of His soon second coming; the consummation of all things. O happy happy day. Christ Jesus will return not as a lowly humble servant , but rather as a fierce grand glorious triumphal King, to rule and reign in all His fullness. We can fully trust that He is coming to take us (the elect) to be with Him forever. Because He has come the first time, thus keeping His precious,prophetic, promises. Are you ready? Do you long for His appearing? ..."Now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears we may have confidence and not shrink from Him in shame at His coming. If you know that He is righteous, you may be sure that He is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him." 1 John 2:28-29
"And everyone who thus hopes in Him purifies himself as He is pure." 1 John 3:3
The scripture-based words are by Isaac Watts. The music was adapted and arranged by Lowell Mason from an older melody which was then believed to have originated from Handel; not least because the theme of the refrain (And heaven and nature sing...) appears in the orchestra opening and accompaniment of the recitative Comfort Ye from Handel's Messiah, and the first four notes match the beginning of the choruses Lift up your heads and Glory to God from the same oratorio. However, Handel did not compose the entire tune.]
JOY TO THE WORLD
Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.
Joy to the world, the Savior reigns!
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy.
No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as, far as, the curse is found.
He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders, wonders, of His love.
posted by Daniel Mann at 12:12 PM
2 Comments:
"He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove
the glories of His righteousness."
My favorite lines.
This song is a wondeful testimony to God's glory resounding through the earth. Love it!
Yes, a great line indeed. I don't know if Isaac watts had this passage in mind ,but it does fit well. This does speak of his first coming. "Full of Grace and truth"
great application for us to be imitators of Christ.
(John 1:14-17) And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John bore witness about him, and cried out, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me") And from his fullness we have all recived, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
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