O’ Come All Ye Faithful

We are looking at some familiar and not so familiar Christmas carols and learning the history behind the songs as well as looking at how their meaning can apply to us here in 2013.

“O Come All Ye Faithful” was originally written in Latin by John Wade, but was mercifully translated into English by the good reverend Fredrick Oakley in 1841. John Reading composed the music for the hymn in 1751 and we have it in its present form today.

O’ come all ye faithful… Ironically Jesus didn’t come for the Faithful He came for the Faith-Less. He came for the Broken, the Hurting, the Lost, the Sick, for People who were nothing like Him…

That is one of the great ironies about the life of Jesus, “people who were nothing like Jesus LIKED Jesus.” How strange, right. I mean most of us would assume that Jesus would be like Sin Repellant, people who were considered the worst of the worst should have been afraid to be in his presence right?

But the exact opposite was true. People who were considered the worst possible sinners were actually attracted and flocked to Jesus.

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