Lo, God, our God has come!

Lo, God, our God has come!

To us a Child is born,

To us a Son is given;

Bless, bless the blessed morn!

O happy, lowly lofty birth,

Now God, our God, has come to earth!

 

Rejoice, our God has come!

In love and lowliness;

The Son of God has come

The sons of men to bless.

God with us now descend to dwell,

God in our flesh, Immanuel.

 

Praise ye the word made flesh!

True God, true man is He.

Praise ye the Christ of God!

To Him all glory be.

Praise ye the Lamb that once was slain,

Praise ye the king that comes to reign.

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He has come! the Christ of God...

He has come! the Christ of God;

Left for us His glad abode;

Stooping from His throne of bliss,

To this darksome wilderness.
 

He has come! the Prince of Peace;—

Come to bid our sorrows cease;

Come to scatter, with His light,

All the darkness of our night.
 

He, the Mighty King, has come!

Making this poor world His home;

Come to bear our sin’s sad load,—

Son of David, Son of God.
 

He has come whose name of grace

Speaks deliverance to our race;

Left for us His glad abode,—

Son of Mary, Son of God!
 

Unto us a Child is born!

Ne’er has earth beheld a morn

Among all the morns of time,

Half so glorious in its prime.
 

Unto us a Son is given!

He has come from God’s own heaven;

Bringing with Him, from above,

Holy peace and holy love.

... Horatius Bonar image

It is not the strength of our faith, but the perfection of Christ's sacrifice that saves!

With a weak faith and a fearful heart, many a sinner stands before the Lord. It is not the strength of our faith, but the perfection of Christ's sacrifice that saves! No feebleness of faith, nor dimness of eye, no trembling of hand can change the efficacy of Christ's blood. The strength of our faith can add nothing to it, nor can the weakness of our faith take anything from Him. Faith (weak or strong) still reads the promise, "the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin." If at times my eye is so dim that I cannot read these words, through blinding tears or bewildering trials, faith rests itself on the certain knowledge of the fact that THE PROMISE IS THERE, and the blood of Christ remains in all its power and suitableness upon the altar, unchanged and unaffected. ...Horatius Bonar image

Christ is the wisdom of God...

Christ is the wisdom of God; and in the knowledge of this Christ there is wisdom for you. Not wisdom only, but life, forgiveness, peace, glory, and an endless kingdom! Study Him! Acquaint yourself with Him! Whatever you are ignorant of, be not ignorant of Him. Whatever you overlook, overlook not Him. What ever you lose, lose not Him. To gain Him is to gain eternal life, to gain a kingdom, to gain everlasting blessedness. To lose Him is to lose your soul, to lose God, to lose God's favour, to lose God's heaven, to lose the eternal crown! ...Horatius Bonar image

With a weak faith and a fearful heart....

With a weak faith and a fearful heart, many a sinner stands before the Lord. It is not the strength of our faith, but the perfection of Christ's sacrifice that saves! No feebleness of faith, nor dimness of eye, no trembling of hand can change the efficacy of Christ's blood. The strength of our faith can add nothing to it, nor can the weakness of our faith take anything from Him. Faith (weak or strong) still reads the promise, "the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin." If at times my eye is so dim that I cannot read these words, through blinding tears or bewildering trials, faith rests itself on the certain knowledge of the fact that THE PROMISE IS THERE, and the blood of Christ remains in all its power and suitableness upon the altar, unchanged and unaffected. ...Horatius Bonar photo

Wonder of wonders! On the cross He dies!

Wonder of wonders!  On the cross He dies!

Man of the ages, David's mighty Son,

The Eternal Word who spake and it was done,

What time, of old, He formed the earth and skies.

Abashed be all the wisdom of the wise!

Let the wide earth through all her kingdoms know

The promise of the Lamb of God, whose blood should flow-

For human guilt the grand, sole sacrifice.

No more need altar smoke, nor victim bleed:

'Tis finished! the great mystery of love.

Ye sin condemned, by this blood, 'tis decreed.

Ye stand absolved; behold the curse removed!

O Christ! Thy deadly wounds, Thy mortal strife

Crush death and hell and give immortal life.

'Tis finished all: the veil is rent,

The welcome sure, the access free:

Now then we leave our banishment,

O Father, to return to Thee!

...Horatius Bonar image