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this little child


Let’s step in another direction but similar.  I share a song with you today that I remember from my childhood, but it is not a normal Christmas carol or hymn.  Yet this song I hear in my head from a concert when I was very young.

It makes me stop and think.  Maybe it will do the same for you.  You can hear the original song by Scott Wesley Brown at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibE0oTMMKXo

Read the lyrics.  Take it in.  Maybe even listen in.  I believe!

This Little Child

Verse 1
Who would of tho't that long ago
So very far away
A little child would be born
And in a manger laid
And who would have tho't this little child
Was born the King of kings
The Son of just a carpenter
But for whom the angels sing
And who would have tho't that as He grew
And with other children played
This child with whom they laughed and sang
Would die for them some day
And who would have tho't this little child
Could make a blind man see
Feed the hungry make rich the poor
And set the sinner free
Oh who would have tho't this little child
Was who the prophets said
Would take away the sins of man
And rise up from the dead

Chorus
O I believe and I will always sing
This little child is the King
O I believe and I will always sing
This little child
He is the King of kings

Verse 2
Many years have come and gone
Yet this world remains the same
Empires have been built and fallen
Only time has made a change
Nation against nation
Brother against brother
Men so filled with hatred
Killing one another
And over half the world is starving
While our banner of decency is torn
Debating over disarmament
Killing children before they're born
And fools who march to win the right
To justify their sin
Oh ev'ry nation that has fallen
Has fallen from within
Yet in the midst of this darkness
There is a hope a light that burns
This little child the King of kings
Some day will return

Chorus
And I believe and I will always sing
This little child is the King
And I believe and I will always sing
This little child
He is the King of kings

Verse 3
And who would have tho't this little child
Is who the prophets said
Will return to judge this world
The living and the dead
Oh can't you see that long ago
So very far away
This little child our only hope
Was born a King that day
And can't you see that here and now
As unto Him we pray
This Lord of lords who is our hope
Is still King today
He's still the King today

Some of those phrases and thoughts stick in my mind and hit my heart.  This is Jesus.  This is the gift at Christmas and every other day. 

Matthew 1:21  NLT
And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.

Born the king of kings.  Would die for them some day.  Feed the hungry, make rich the poor and set the sinner free.  And rise up from the dead.

Those words ring through me, and that is just from the first verse.

Make much of Jesus this Christmas.  He is the king, and He as born the king that day, the first Christmas day!
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