Among
God’s ancient chosen race
Who
always tended to rebel
One
came to show the heart of God,
Whose
title is Emmanuel.
“God
with us”, to express God’s love,
To
show His constant will to bless,
To
bring a humbled nation back
And
to fulfil all righteousness.
The
poor in spirit were His care,
Hungerers,
those who mourned, the meek,
And
all whom human pride despised;
Such
were the ones He came to seek.
He
listened to His Father’s voice
Each
morning from the time He woke,
And
His disciples came to know
The
Father of whose grace He spoke.
The
children God had given Him,
Under
His word and touch, began
To
grow in grace and thus display
The
features of the heavenly Man.
He
praised His Father that though He
Was
One the nation might despise
The
Father had revealed to babes
What
had been hidden from the wise.
If
Israel despised His rights
And
thus blasphemed the Father too
The
Gentiles were embraced to share
In
concepts which were wholly new.
For
He was minded to secure,
To
His great cost, the entity,
Unnamed
as yet to men, which would
Delight
Him to eternity.
But
Who was this who in His grace
Among
the needy humbly trod?
The
Father sovereignly revealed
It
was the Christ, the Son of God.
Into
a world of sins and ills
One
who was God in Person came,
And
His assembly can be built
On
the confession of His Name.
Yet
if that joy for Christ and God
Will
merge as a celestial whole,
It
meant His suffering and death,
It
meant the anguish of His soul.
Those
who are faithful to His name
Through
this can be victorious
As
conscious of the present love
Of
Him who came as “God with us”.
