BORN A SAVIOR

“Come, Thou long expected Jesus, born to set Thy people free;
from our fears and sins release us, let us find our rest in Thee.
Born Thy people to deliver, born a child and yet a King,
born to reign in us forever, now Thy gracious kingdom bring.”
(Excerpted from “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus” by Charles Wesley)

“For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.”  (Luke 2:11)

The whole life of Christ was a continual passion; others die martyrs, but Christ was born a martyr…  His birth and His death were but one continual act, and His Christmas-day and His Good Friday are but the evening and morning of the one and the same day. 

-- John Donne in his “Sermon of Christmas-Day, 1626”

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