One more Advent hymn for your reflection and preparation this year.

The advent of our King, Our prayers must now employ,
And we must hymns of welcome sing In strains of holy joy.

The everlasting Son Incarnate deigns to be;
Himself a servant’s form puts on To set His servants free.

O Zion’s Daughter, rise To meet thy lowly King,
Nor let thy faithless heart despise The peace He comes to bring.

As Judge, on clouds of light, He soon will come again
And His true members all unite With Him in heav’n to reign.

Before the dawning day Let sin’s dark deeds be gone,
The old man all be put away, The new man all put on.

All glory to the Son, Who comes to set us free,
With Father, Spirit, ever One, Through all eternity.
(The Lutheran Hymnal #68)

The words that I will be pondering and mulling over today are in the second stanza:

The everlasting Son Incarnate deigns to be;

The one who is without beginning and without end chose to take on human flesh, becoming one of us. This not only helps us to relate to Him, but it enabled Him to be the payment for our sin!

Himself a servant’s form puts on To set His servants free.

The one in charge of EVERYTHING made Himself a servant to serve the ones who should be serving Him.

God’s grace in the form of a baby boy that would grow to carry out His mission of saving all people. Reason indeed to sing for joy.