Advent

brings me

down

to my knees

like the snow

falling.

“Let it be.”

 

Saved by the birth

of the Child…

Just Jesus’ birth,

just this incarnation,

this is redemption.

The cross is coming,

but for now,

it’s the Child.

 

But the Child’s destiny is secure.

He will die,

once and for all

sin will lose its power.

The perfect sacrifice.

before the foundations of the world,
Christ was slain.

The Child in Mary’s arms

born to die,

born to defeat death,

born Saviour.

 

The incarnation alone

breathes out

restoration,

redemption,

salvation.

Cause the woman’s seed,

the virgin’s pregnancy,

the impossible,

biologically,

was reversing

the curse.

Unravelling,

the past,

where our first mother was convinced

to distrust

God,

Mary, our holy mother, was convicted

to trust

God.

 

And we are back

to the love story

in the garden,

where God walks

with man.

Christmas is

God and man together again,

seed of the woman,

Crushing the seed of the enemy.

 

No more division.

Christmas tells me

I am saved.

The Hero has come,

His victory is won.

Right from

a young girl’s

“Let it be,”

the cross’ work was complete.

 

Christmas carries

the entire message,

the whole weight

and glory

of redemption,

Like God

curling into

 a virgin’s womb.

 

May my, “Let it be,”

crush the enemy.

may my trust

in a faithful God,

bring victory.

 

May Christ in me,

the hope of glory,

birth salvation

and hope

this advent.

Let it be.

 

“Christ is the Lord,

O praise, His name forever,

His power and glory

Ever more shall reign.

His power and glory

Ever more shall reign.”