Call To Come, Let Us Adore Him!

 It is not hard to be filled with wonder by beauty we see...

What about Beauty that we cannot see, yet believe?!

Come, let us adore Him!

Come, let us not with idle bent

Fill thought with fear or discontent

But let us hear and thus be stirred

By the Glad News the shepherds heard

‘For unto us was born that day

A Saviour, Christ the Lord alway

With what we have in all we can

Let us love our fellowman

The gift of Jesus is no myth

Then let us honor Him therewith

Let humble hearts with Hope restored

Bow down and worship Christ the Lord

Equality with God, and yet

Christ came to pay the sinner's debt

Found in appearance as a man

He did not shirk salvation’s plan

Though King of kings and Lord of lords

He left His throne for cross horrors

…to trod for us the skull-strew hill

He bore our punishment until

In anguish and triumph He cried

“It is finished” then He died

And broke the grasp hell had on us

The Saviour of the world, Jesus

Jesus is love that sets us free

His perfect law of liberty

Is more than text upon a page

Deliverance, from age to age

Should charge our hearts with wonder wild

To worship Bethlehem’s Christ Child

© Janet Martin  

James 1: 19-27 

My beloved brothers, understand this: 

Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,  

for man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness that God desires.

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, 

and humbly receive the word planted in you, which can save your souls.

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man 

who looks at his face in a mirror, and after observing himself goes away 

and immediately forgets what he looks like.

But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so

—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.

If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, 

he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: 

to care for orphans and widows in their distress, 

and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.