Dec 24 The King Is Coming

Day 24 - The King is Coming!

This is my favorite Christmas hymn and is best enjoyed sung by a cathedral choir. Its words, simple, yet profound, whisper to my soul of the humble beginnings of the King of Kings. Angels announced His arrival and His birth. His coming was predicted hundreds of years earlier and 2000 years later we still erect our little nativity scenes in remembrance of this amazing moment in history. Today will you welcome Him? Will you set aside everything for a moment to worship Him? Is your heart ready to receive the greatest gift of all? He is poised to fill you with joy, hope and peace. All you have to do is open His amazing gift. 1. In the bleak midwinter

frosty wind made moan,

earth stood hard as iron,

water like a stone:

snow had fallen,

snow on snow, snow on snow,

in the bleak midwinter,

long ago. 2 Our God, heaven cannot hold him,

nor earth sustain;

heaven and earth shall flee away

when he comes to reign:

in the bleak midwinter a stable place sufficed the Lord God Almighty,

Jesus Christ. 3 Enough for him whom cherubim

worship night and day,

a breastful of milk

and a manger full of hay:

enough for him

whom angels fall down before,

the ox and ass and camel

which adore. 4 Angels and archangels

may have gathered there,

cherubim and seraphim

thronged the air,

but only his mother,

in her maiden bliss,

worshiped the Beloved

with a kiss. 5 What can I give him,

poor as I am?

If I were a shepherd,

I would bring a lamb,

if I were a wise man

I would do my part,

yet what I can I give him,

give my heart.