With Christmas coming this week, I thought I’d do something different for this week’s post. Something that always stands out to me when reading about and remembering Christ’s birth is how many people prophesied and celebrated Him.
These people carried the message of Christ across continents and centuries, testified and recorded their testimonies of Him, and helped others look forward to His coming.
And this still happens today.
We aren’t looking for the birth of our Savior now – we’re looking for His glorious day of power, the Second Coming. And the messengers who prepare us for that day have the same job as the messengers who carried the message of Christ’s birth thousands of years ago.
With all this in mind, I’ve written a poem to celebrate both Christmas and the message of our Christ. I hope you enjoy it. Merry Christmas!
Messengers
Consider the messengers
of ancient days past,
embracing the bright Word
and whispering, “Thou hast
found favor with God.”
“For with God nothing
shall be impossible.”
She remembers and murmurs
to the babe in the manger,
as, nearby, He’s declared
Savior by seraphs above.
Proof given in the sign
promised by the Great God
of the covenant, no silence
remains. The bright Word
spreads joyously abroad.
Promised sign of light
oceans away testifies the Savior
before a gaping audience –
proving the lost messenger
of the wall, lives and souls
protected in the Word.
The Greatest Messenger shares
His own bright Word,
carrying in Him His Father’s
business and binding all
our battle wounds.
From our King, “A light
to lighten the Gentiles,”
the bright Word leaps
beyond even Him, His lambs
bounding forward to others,
abroad and determined.
Even in the days
surrounded in philosophy,
sophistry winning out,
resolution bore the
might of the bright Word.
Near buried, the bright Word
stands, high again among
messengers, bearing to all
the promises of the past
and the acts of the Savior,
all maintained in love.
Consider the messengers
of days we watch pass,
acting in effects farther
reaching than mortals’
vision discerns.
Messengers taking up the call to fight
and marching with the Word of Light.
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