Emmanuel Abides

Our creator comes to us

Emmanuel abides

His face he no longer hides

Oh so many years of darkness

Silence in the sanctuary

For we were known as Ichabod

The glory once departed

Now fills the eastern skies

The sea of silence now is parted

You can hear the glorious cries

Gloria to our Jehovah

The heavens are filled with singing

That raises the lowliest man

The outcast and the unclean

Called to his presence to stand!

And here is the wonder

The child is like them

Lowly and hungry

To steel his flesh against the night

To steel our flesh against the night.

He has called us out of darkness

Out of darkness into His marvelous light

He had cast away the power of darkness

We exult in His power and might.

Anthony Foster

November 27, 2009