There is a King: A Christmas Night of Worship!
I hope you will make plans to join us for our Christmas Night of Worship on December 14th at 6:00 PM. This will be a great time for us to set our hearts on Christ and remember the wonderful truth that He came to dwell among us, our Emmanuel. Christmas is always a busy time of year, and it is easy for us to get caught up in the parties and family gatherings that we forget to adore our King who has come. Let us all make a commitment this year to spend more time celebrating King Jesus and less time on things of this world.
So, I hope you will take a moment and put this event on your calendar! Our adult and children’s choirs, band, and tech team have and will be working hard to make this night a worship-filled evening; you will want to make plans to join us!
All Hail King Jesus
Isaac Watt, the famed hymn writer who wrote well known hymns such as “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross”, “Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed”, and “Joy to the World”, wrote hundreds of poems that many have never heard nor read. Having died nearly three hundred years ago, the language he uses isn’t what we are used to in this day and age, yet it is still rich in theological truth. Here are a few verses from a poem based on the passage of Psalm 47:
O for a shout of sacred joy
To God the sovereign King!
Let every land their tongues employ
And hymns of triumph sing.
While angels shout and praise their
King,
Let mortals learn their strains;
Let all the earth his honours sing;
O’er all the earth he reigns.
Rehearse His praise with awe
profound,
Let knowledge lead the song,
Nor mock him with a solemn sound
Upon a thoughtless tongue.
I hope this Christmas season, you will take time to “rehearse His praise with awe profound.” We celebrate Christ’s coming to earth as fully God and fully man, to justify us before our holy God, and Jesus did that by dying on the cross and bearing the weight of our sins. He defeated death. He defeated sin. He will reign forever and forever more as our King, and for this we shall rejoice in the goodness of God!
This was prophesied in the familiar Christmas passage of Isaiah 9:6–7: 6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
This passage should give us hope and refuge from the trials of life! This is the Christ we serve, the everlasting God, ruler over all things, and He was given for us. Watts wrote “Let knowledge lead the song.” I hope this season the knowledge that we have of Christ, that He loves us and has saved us, will give us reason to sing and give Him praise. Even in the busiest of moments. Even in the darkest of nights, may we remember that Christ is King, worthy of our awe-filled praise. May we never forget to give Him praise!
