Incarnation

 

What a mystery- this babe spoke eternity

Human flesh clothing God's Glory!

In all of history our only hope is His  story

Undiminished deity and perfect humanity

Born to a virgin mother

Heaven and Earth touch one another!

 

Our very life has its birth

God incarnate came to this earth

Came to be the one of Worth

 

The lamb of our salvation

Love and mercy for our transformation

 

What a mystery- this babe spoke eternity

Human flesh clothing God's Glory!

In all of history our only hope is His  story

 

God in an untouched womb- God in an unmarked tomb

Where one His presence sanctified

The other held him when He died

He was the substitution- justice's retribution

For on that night His life did not begin

And in that death His life did not end!

 

Our very life has its birth

God incarnate came to this earth

Came to be the one of Worth

 

For eternity future and eternity past

The saviour of the world is the first and the last!

 

What a mystery- this babe spoke eternity

Human flesh clothing God's Glory!

In all of history our only hope is His  story...

 

Christmas 1986

Anthony Foster