re: O Holy Night

Thank you for posting the lyrics and sharing this great song.

This line was the theme for our four Advent sermons this year.

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A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices

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It’s a very personal song for me. I’m almost 70 now but I was 22 when I became a Christian in late August of 1975.

The Faith was quite new, overwhelming, and almost magical to me and I was radically transformed by Christ’s love. As Christmas rolled around, I happened to catch Glenn Campbell on The 700 Club (a show that I’d never watched except to make fun of it). He sang O Holy Night
a cappella. A song I had never paid attention to prior.

It was, and remains, one of the most moving experiences I’ve ever had, musically, emotionally, and spiritually. It opened my heart and mind to the reality, implications, and impact of The Incarnation. Particularly this line
Long lay the world
in sin and error pining
Till He appeared
and the soul felt its worth

So much had that song affected me that when another version of it came on the background Christmas music system at the mall department store where I worked I teared up at that line surrounded by customers, coworkers, and the store’s beautiful Christmas displays and lights. I’m affected similarly each time I hear it now 47 years later.

Thanks be to God that in Jesus’s Incarnation he showed mercy to a wretched sinner like me.

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For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

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