Saturday, January 1, 2011

Blessed New Year!

For your New Year's Day meditation I have posted a hymn below. Today is the 8th day after our Christmas celebration, so in the church we recognize that it is the day that he was circumcised (referred to in the hymn below as his first taste of human woe) and officially named Jesus.

May this hymn bring you peace and joy today. And may our Wondrous Christ be with you this year and always. Blessings!

Jesus! Name of wondrous love!
Name all other names above!
Unto which must every knee
Bow in deep humility.

Jesus! Name of priceless worth
To the fallen sons of earth,
For the promise that it gave—
“Jesus shall His people save.”

Jesus! Name decreed of old,
To the maiden mother told—
Kneeling in her lowly cell—
By the angel Gabriel.

Jesus! Name of mercy mild,
Given to the holy Child,
When the cup of human woe
First He tasted here below.

Jesus! Only name that’s given
Under all the mighty heaven,
Whereby man, to sin enslaved,
Bursts his fetters, and is saved.

Jesus! Name of wondrous love,
Human name of God above!
Pleading only this, we flee,
Helpless, O our God, to Thee.


Study with me Monday,

Pastor Jon

Soli Deo Gloria!

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