Daily Affirmations - Day 3 - Good Tidings of Great Joy - Christ Was Born to Save
- Alisa B.
- 4 days ago
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Day 3: Christ was born to save
“Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For behold, I am coming and I will dwell in your midst,” says the Lord (Zechariah 2:10).
Let us joyfully celebrate the coming of our salvation and redemption. Let us celebrate the festal day on which the great and timeless One came from the great and timeless day to this brief span of our day. He has become for us ... justice, and sanctification, and redemption; so that, just as it is written, “Let him who takes pride, take pride in the Lord” (1 Cor. 1:30-31).
When the Psalmist had said: “Truth is sprung out of the earth,” he quickly added: “and justice hath looked down from heaven” (Ps. 84:12). He did this lest mortal frailty, arrogating this justice to itself, should call these blessings its own, and lest man should reject the justice of God in his belief that he is justified, that is, made just through his own efforts.
"Truth is sprung out of the earth" because Christ who said: “I am the truth” (John 14:6). was born of a virgin; and “justice hath looked down from heaven” because, by believing in Him who was so born, man has been justified not by his own efforts but by God.
“Truth is sprung out of the earth” because “the Word was made flesh” and “justice hath looked down from heaven” because “every good and perfect gift is from above” (John 1:14, James 1:17).
“Truth is sprung out of the earth,” that is, His flesh was taken from Mary; and “justice hath looked down from heaven” because “no one can receive anything unless it is given to him from heaven” (John 3:27).
~ Augustine of Hippo
Good Christian friends, rejoice,
With heart and soul and voice;
Give ye heed to what we say:
Jesus Christ is born today;
Ox and ass before Him bow;
And He is in the manger now.
Christ is born today!
Christ is born today!
Good Christian friends, rejoice,
With heart and soul and voice;
Now ye hear of endless bliss:
Jesus Christ was born for this!
He has opened heaven’s door,
And we are blest forevermore.
Christ was born for this!
Christ was born for this!
Good Christian friends, rejoice,
With heart and soul and voice;
Now ye need not fear the grave:
Jesus Christ was born to save!
Calls you one and calls you all,
To gain His everlasting hall.
Christ was born to save!
Christ was born to save!
~ Anonymous/Unknown
tr. by John M. Neale, pub.1853
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