LET EVERY HEART PREPARE HIM ROOM

 

Sunday, November 27, 2022

 

LET EVERY HEART PREPARE HIM ROOM

 

Heb 10:35-37

35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

 

          Today is a pivotal day in the life of the church because we celebrate the promise of the past while looking forward to the future. Unlike most Christmas carols, Joy to the World has a forward look.

 

          Isaac Watts wrote the poem in 1719 while still in his teens. He became bored with the Psalms and wanted something new although it is based upon the 98^th Psalm. It was published in a collection of poems and rested unnoticed for a hundred years.

 

          A Boston music teacher named Lowell Mason discovered the poem and set it to music. Because it was released at Christmastime it immediately became a holiday favorite and is still so today.

 

Joy To The World

 

Words: Isaac Watts

Music: "Antioch" arranged by Lowell Mason

Meter: 86.86

Ps 98; Luke 2:11

 

Joy to the world, the Lord is come!

Let earth receive her King;

Let every heart prepare Him room,

And heaven and nature sing,

And heaven and nature sing,

And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.

 

Joy to the world, the Savior reigns!

Let men their songs employ;

While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains

Repeat the sounding joy,

Repeat the sounding joy,

Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy.

 

No more let sins and sorrows grow,

Nor thorns infest the ground;

He comes to make His blessings flow

Far as the curse is found,

Far as the curse is found,

Far as, far as, the curse is found.

 

He rules the world with truth and grace,

And makes the nations prove

The glories of His righteousness,

And wonders of His love,

And wonders of His love,

And wonders, wonders, of His love.

 

Dear Lord, as we begin a wonderful season of remembering, let us look forward to your soon coming. Thank you for making your blessings flow “far as the curse is found.” AMEN