The truth of Christmas can be summed up in the title of today’s song: ‘God has come to earth.’ No other religion has this momentous truth! – they have prophets and holy men, gurus and mentors, but only Christianity talks of God actually becoming man: not simply visiting earth, as the Greek gods did according to legend, but actually taking on human flesh: ‘clothed in a garb of flesh and blood’, as the song says. The song takes this theme and incorporates the chorus of ‘O Come, All Ye Faithful’ as our response to all that God has done!
‘All praise to You, eternal Lord,
Clothed in a garb of flesh and blood,
You chose the manger for Your throne,
While worlds on worlds are Yours alone.
Once here the skies before You bow
A virgin’s arms cradle You now
And angels who in You rejoice
Now listen for Your infant voice.
They sing ‘Glory in the highest’,
For there’s no other name by which we can be saved.
Glory in the highest.
Heaven and earth forever will proclaim,
‘God has come to earth.’
O little child, You are our guest,
That weary ones in You may rest.
Forlorn and lowly is Your birth
That we may rise to heaven from earth.
O come let us adore Him.
O come let us adore Him.
O come let us adore Him.
O come let us adore Him.’ (‘God Has Come To Earth’, Aaron Shust)