His 'Day After'
December 19, 2006
Among the still Judean hills Where shepherds grazed their sheep, Angelic song like sudden dawn Woke slumberers from sleep. Though startled so, they did not know That heaven had contrived, To tell through them, good news to men. "Day after" had arrived. No rain of bombs in megatonnes To tear and break the earth No searing fire, but angels' choir Announcing Jesus' birth. A promise old, His birth foretold, This Saviour who would come. In Him who lay in manger hay Salvation had begun. "Day after" is, the time since His Coming as man to earth, Reversed the fall, gave hope to all. Redemption had its birth. No scheming man for all his plan Could overcome with might, What Mary's child had reconciled By humble birth that night. No force so strong, no reign so long could change the heart of men, As God was able, in a stable, Through a babe in Bethlehem. And since that birth, no place on earth Can ever be the same For 'twas earth's Lord shepherds adored, The day that Jesus came. In weakness odd, the strength of God Lay in a tiny child A voiceless herald to save the world That sin and death defiled. A world deranged, forever changed O shout with joy and laughter! Since Jesus came, we're not the same, We've living His "Day after"!