Nowhere do worship and theology converge more beautifully than in Christmas hymns. This Sunday we’ll be singing one of the best kept secrets of Christmas worship songs. All the videos I’ve found for it are really cheezy, but below’s a video of the music alone and below that the words. Follow the words as you listen to the music. Our version will be a bit more contemporary, but will hopefully retain the awe and wonder at the mystery of the incarnation.
I cannot tell how He whom angels worship
Should stoop to love the peoples of the earth
Or why, as shepherd, He would seek the
wanderer
And his mysterious promise of new birth
But this I know, that He was born of Mary
When Bethlehem’s manger was His only
home
And that He lived at Nazareth and
laboured
And so the Saviour, Saviour of the world
is come.
I cannot tell how silently He suffered
As with His peace He graced this place
of tears
Or how His heart upon the cross was
broken
The crown of pain to three and thirty
years
But this I know, He heals the
broken-hearted
And stays our sin and calms our lurking
fear
And lifts the burden from the heavy
laden
For yet the Saviour, Saviour of the world
is here.
I cannot tell how He will win the nations,
How He will claim His earthly heritage,
How satisfy the needs and aspirations
Of east and west, of sinner and of sage.
But this I know, all flesh shall see His glory,
And He shall reap the harvest He has sown,
And some glad day His sun shall shine in splendor
When He the Savior, Savior of the world, is known.
I cannot tell how all the lands shall
worship
When at His bidding every storm is stilled
Or who can say how great the jubilation
When every heart with perfect love is filled
But this I know, the skies will thrill with
rapture
And myriad, myriad human voices sing
And earth to heaven, and heaven to
earth will answer
At last the Saviour, Saviour of the world
is King!
