Most of you who read this regularly know that my favourite Christmas album is Michael Card’s ‘The Final Word’, which strictly speaking is not a ‘Christmas’ album at all, but a masterly exposition of the Incarnation of Christ. Today’s song ‘Immanuel‘ comes from this (being re-recorded on Card’s more traditional Christmas album ‘The Promise’), reminding us of Romans 8:31 and Isaiah 9:6-7. It also includes one of my favourite lyric descriptions of Jesus: ‘a human baby bearing undiminished deity.’ Enjoy!
‘A sign shall be given
A virgin will conceive
A human baby bearing
Undiminished deity
The glory of the nations
A light for all to see
That hope for all who will embrace
His warm reality
Immanuel
Our God is with us
And if God is with us
Who could stand against us?
Our God is with us
Immanuel.
For all those who live in the shadow of death
A glorious light has dawned
For all those who stumble in the darkness
Behold your light has come
So what will be your answer?
Will you hear the call?
Of Him who did not spare His son
But gave him for us all
On earth there is no power
There is no depth or height
That could ever separate us
From the love of God in Christ.’ (‘Immanuel’, Michael Card)