In Celebration

In Celebration
In celebration of the Savior's birth:
The wonder that He came to earth,
Took on an infant's form and age--
For God a baby's form his cage,
Limiting His choice for we
Sinners by choice without liberty
All He is as God Enfleshed instead,
Taking on hummanness and shed
As as God is His due
That He might come for me and you,
Grow in knowledge and in grace,
Take at last the sinner's place,
Willing die bearing His Father's wrath divine
That we may be grafted into the vine,
Taking all that we deserved to bear of grief
Gifting us redemption, grace, belief;
What a wonder began that day
As that Child was laid in humble hay,
Born to grow and die and more--
Raised triumphant to reign forevermore.