I apologize for my brief absence from the blog. Christmas Extravaganza has taken it’s toll on me. But, nevertheless, I am here today hoping to shed some light on this well-known Christmas Classic.
Here at First Baptist we believe in singing scripture-affirming songs. By that I mean that we do not go down many paths that lead nowhere. For example, while many churches like the tune, the song Days of Elijah is not one that is in the regular rotation at First because it is confusing at best, and flat-wrong at worst. I call this a ‘duct tape’ song. You take a little of this, and a little of that, and duct-tape it to some chords, and, voila, you have yourself a ‘worship song’.
Hark! The Herald Angles Sing is NOT a duct-tape song. We will end our music set on Sunday with this classic because it is truly a scripture-affirming, God honoring song.
We look at lines in the song like “Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, Hail incarnate Deity”, and we have, knowingly or not, affirmed the divinity of Christ. We are affirming John 1 and singing that God took on flesh and was God living among us. The verse goes on to say “Jesus, our Emmanuel”, which means Jesus is our “God With Us”. He is God. God is He. Hail incarnate Diety!
We could look at the lyrics to this carol all day and not exhaust their meaning, but I hope next Sunday you look at this song with fresh eyes. Not stopping your mind after the first verse, but through faith singing these lyrics from your hearts. Singing to our Savior who was born that man no more may die, born to raise the sons of earth, born to give them second birth.
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