Christmas Before Christmas



This past Sunday was the first Sunday in Advent.


Christmas Before Christmas

What child is this who came to be birthed, grow; be tested and die,
For you and for me?

What child is this who never sins while tempted again and again,
Yet never gives in?

What child is this who is fully God, now a baby on the very sod
Which that same baby spoke into being?

What child is this who Mary holds and nurses and nourishes;
Who is Mary's Savior and Teacher and Comforter?

What child is this who will go from infancy to manhood then
Lay down his sinless life?

What child is this who no one pays any attention to except as an excuse
For buying gifts and letting loose?

What child is this who is remembered only so long with
Lipped song, while mind is elsewhere engaged?

Who is this child who, grown to mankind full,
Will lay down his sinless life for my sinful soul?

It must be God, for only God can satisfy God's holy commands;
God who placed his life into God's hands.

It must be God for only God could live without sinning,
God for God, souls through His death winning.

It must be God, now in humble refuge and rude.

It must be God, who will carry a cross of wood.

It must be God--a child so conceived.

It must be God--who repentant, we must believe.

It must be God--all glory from most high and most low;

It must be God--to Him all honors flow.