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 Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy,
“Do you hear what I hear?”
Ringing through the sky, shepherd boy,
“Do you hear what I hear?”
A song, a song high above the trees
With a voice as big as the sea,
With a voice as big as the sea.
Said the shepherd boy to the mighty king,
“Do you know what I know?”
In your palace warm, mighty king,
“Do you know what I know?”
A Child a Child shivers in the cold,
Let us bring Him silver and gold,
Let us bring Him silver and gold.
Said the king to the people everywhere,
“Listen to what I say!”
Pray for peace, people, everywhere,
Listen to what I say!
The Child, the Child sleeping in the night
He will bring us goodness and light,
He will bring us goodness and light.
Notice how the lyrics of the song communicate that this message of
hope is for everybody! The Shepherd knows. The King knows. Even the
little lamb knows! There is a free exchange of information that
crosses walls and boundaries and prejudices.
In this little song we are reminded that the message of the Gospel
is for all peoples. The good news of Jesus’ birth is for the
unnoticed and for the one that lives in the shadows and for the one
who struggles to put food on the table. The good news of Jesus’
birth is for the rich and the powerful and for the influential too
(even for millionaires and billionaires). I don’t see a lot of
“class warfare” in the Christmas story or in the Gospels or in the
story of the early church within Scripture.
What I do see is a God who has a message of hope and redemption for
everybody, because of His unconditional love for everybody, and in
response to everybody’s need of a Savior.
Christ came at Christmas for the poor sinner and for the rich sinner
equally because in His eyes we all need Him equally.
Whether it’s 1962 or 2019, we continue to live in a dangerous and
divided world. It appears that we are being pulled apart and
fragmented more and more into opposing camps. It seems that
increasingly we are tending to look at others who do not hold to our
views of the world as our enemy.
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And of course all of this makes for good TV and so
there is produced content that positively reinforces (whether
intentionally or unintentionally) the growing schisms that exist
within and without.
The good news of Christmas is that we are truly not divided. We are
One People! We are of One World!
Every last one of us has the same need for a Savior.
Every last one of us has sinned and separated ourselves from our
loving Creator.
Every last one of us has a need to go to this Jesus who came at
Christmas and become His Disciple.
“Do you Hear what I Hear?”
Sounds to me that we have a lot more in common than what we think!
Let’s come together this Christmas in the name of Jesus!
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