Long before Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber created the familiar Carol " Silent Night," Angelius Silesius had written:
Love! in the silent night a child to God is born, And all is brought again that are was lost or lorn. Could but they soul, Of man, became a silent night God would be born in the and set all things aright.
Silesius, a Polish monk, published the poem in 1657 in The Cherubic Pilgrim. During our Church's annual Christmas Eve service, the choir sang beautiful rendition of the song titled " Could but They Soul Become a Silent Night."
The twofold mystery of Christmas is that God became one of us so that we might become one with Him. Jesus suffered everything that was wrong so that we could be made right. That's why the apostle Paul could write, " If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone; the new is here! All this is from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ."
Whether our Christmas is filled with family and friends or empty of all we long for, we know that Jesus came to be born in us.
Ah, would they heart but be a manger for the birth, God would once more become a child on earth.
Lord Jesus, thank You for being born into this dark world so that we might be born again into Your life and light.
God became one of us so that we might become one with Him.
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