“Carol of the Bells”
The shepherds went back,
glorifying and praising God
for all that they had heard and seen,
just as had been told them.
Truth For The Heart
The shepherds went back,
glorifying and praising God
for all that they had heard and seen,
just as had been told them.
But when the fullness of the time came,
God sent forth His Son.
While they were there, the days
were completed for her to give birth.
Christ Jesus, who,
although existing in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God
a thing to be grasped,
but emptied Himself,
by taking the form of a slave,
by being made in the likeness of men.
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field,
keeping watch over their flock by night.
“But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
Too little to be among the clans of Judah,
From you One will go forth for Me
to be ruler in Israel.
His goings forth are from long ago,
From the days of eternity.”
…for today in the city of David
there has been born for you a Savior,
who is Christ the Lord.
“…a bruised reed he will not break,
and a dimly burning wick
he will not quench…”