Celebrate Jesus!

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Christmas is less than a month away and the season of Advent has begun.  Want to more fully understand what we are actually saying when we say Jesus is the reason for the season?  Check out the song I Celebrate the Day from the band Relient K.  The song is written by Matt Thiessen, and the lyrics and video are below.  For me, it is one of the most significant Christmas songs written in the past 20 years, because it reminds us of who the Babe of Bethlehem grows up to be- and what He would do for us.  May God open all of our eyes so that we may see the gift of the Christ child for what it really was...the gift of salvation!  Our deliverer is coming...

And with this Christmas wish is missed

The point I could convey

If only I could find the words to say

to let You know how much You've touched my life

Because here is where You're finding me,

in the exact same place as New Year's eve

And from a lack of my persistency

We're less than half as close as I want to be

And the first time

That You opened Your eyes did You realize

that You would be my Savior?

And the first breath that left Your lips

Did You know that it would change this world forever?

And so this Christmas I'll compare 
the things I felt in prior years

To what this midnight made so clear

That You have come to meet me here

To look back and think that

This baby would one day save me

In the hope that what You did

That you were born so I might live

To look back and think that

This baby would one day save me

And I, I celebrate the day

That You were born to die

So I could one day pray for You to save my life

Pray for You to save my life

Pray for You to save my life...

My Deliverer Is Coming...