Oh, come, our Wisdom from on high,
Who ordered all things mightily;
To us the path of knowledge show,
and teach us in her ways to go.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to you, O Israel!
Oh, come, Desire of nations, bind
In one the hearts of all mankind;
Oh, bid our sad divisions cease,
And be yourself our King of Peace.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to you, O Israel!
I’m not
very familiar with these last 2 verses but they are packed with truth. Jesus, according to 1 Corinthians 1:30,
became to us wisdom from God;
30 But
by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and
righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,
31 so that, just as it is written, “Let him who boasts,
boast in the Lord.”
Wisdom
can be defined as; knowledge applied. In
other words, Jesus did not come to simply ransom the captives and save us from
death’s dark shadow (which would have been incredibly enough) but He also
purchased us in order to place us in a wisdom based, amazing masterpiece
plan. This master plan spans history, time, race, gender and so much more. Jesus ransomed us and put us in His Body so
that as our King of Peace filled with wisdom, He can rule and reign in us and
through us. We are equal yet different members of One Body. Paul put it this way in Romans 12:3-5;
3”For through the grace given to me
I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought
to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to
each a measure of faith. 4 For
just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the
same function, 5 so we, who are many, are
one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.”
He is the
Desire of the Nations binding hearts together with Himself and for Himself….the
Body of Christ has a work to do- to love one another, so that the world will
know who He is. So Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel! He has come!
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