In the sermon for the first Sunday in Advent, one of my pastors hit on something that I could relate to. My takeaway is that there is a paradox of Christmas.
A child is born, yet the Scripture that day was of the adult Jesus anticipating the cross. So Christmas is about the infant AND the Savior.
That message is encapsulated in the Hebrew text from Isaiah, in what is usually called the Old Testament:
Chapter 9, verse 6 reads: For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
A lot of potentiality in that kid.
Merry Christmas.
Unsurprisingly, For Unto Us A Child Is Born from Handel’s Messiah
Sir Colin Davis conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and the Tenebrae choir
I’ve listened to the entire Messiah this autumn and was newly enthralled by the piece that reportedly took only three weeks to compose. If you are so inclined, the whole magilla: