I've had people asking me about us adding Christmas songs to the worship line up for R&R and I honestly cringed at first. Don't get me wrong, I love singing Christmas Carols. They're festive and fun! I've just never thought of them as a form of worship.
This last week we threw our own version of Mercy Me's version of Silent Night. You can listen to it on YouTube here. From the moment that I sampled this song on iTunes it changed my perspective on Christmas songs as worship. I think the song was well received this week.
Now to the point of my blog title...
Listen to this song & really listen to the words:
Relient K - "Celebrate the Day"
Lyrics:
And with this Christmas wish is missed
The point I could convey
If only I could find the words to say to let You know how much You've touched my life
Because here is where You're finding me, in the exact same place as New Year's eve
And from a lack of my persistency
We're less than half as close as I want to be
And the first time
That You opened Your eyes did You realize that You would be my Savior
And the first breath that left Your lips
Did You know that it would change this world forever
And so this Christmas I'll compare the things I felt in prior years
To what this midnight made so clear
That You have come to meet me here
To look back and think that
This baby would one day save me
In the hope that what You did
That you were born so I might live
To look back and think that
This baby would one day save me
And I, I celebrate the day
That You were born to die
So I could one day pray for You to save my life
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The first time I listened to this song it made me tear up. To think about the innocence of a baby. Those of you who have had kids before understand what this is like. We are born into this world with very little knowledge. We have to learn to talk, think, eat, and interact with people. We have to learn good and bad.
It's hard for me to imagine a baby that's so innocent and knowledge less is going to die for me. It rips my heart to know that something so beautiful was done for me. The greatest thing about this season is spending it in awe of the miracle that God gave us in the form of a baby. The next greatest thing is the time I get to spend with my family.
Pure innocence is something that we only acheive once in our lives. Then we start to gain knowledge and the understanding of the world around us. Praise the lord for a child that didn't know what he was going to bear for all of us. It kills me to think of my sins and that baby.
I really don't know what else to add. Re-listen to the song and think about a baby that takes his first breath. Think about how that first breath saved your life. Think about the first thing that those eyes saw was our world, the place he was going to die for. Jesus was one of us. He was innocently born into a curropt world just like us!
Pray that we may all understand God's love for us better. Pray that we think about an innocent baby Jesus and how our sins today effect him.
PEACE!
~James
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