Joy To The World

We sang Joy To The World, Sunday. I remembered one of my friends saying that he sings that song “every time he goes to church”. I asked “What’s up with that?” He explained that he goes “once a year at Christmas, to please my wife”. As moved on with the service, I came back to what he said:

“Joy to the world! The Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.”

Those are powerful words: and my heart sticks at “Let earth receive her King”. This is not a sentiment for Christmastime alone; this should be the prayer we cry out daily. It is a song that should be on our lips “every time we go to church”; even as our hearts “prepare Him room”.

Merry Christmas!