The Lamb and the Shepherds, Wisdom and His Seekers

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ChrisTillinen

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Love springing from its eternal source
Made his Word of wisdom take on flesh
Life-giving water running its course
Brought revival to the hope made fresh

God made manifest in his creation
The love that had always been
Hope of healing for every nation
Springing forth from world unseen

By angelic word of a coming end to all strife
Into a humble small city they were led
Ones starving for grace saw the bread of life
In Beth-lehem, David's house of bread

As a precious baby in the midst of common livestock
He embodied mercy of the all-powerful and all-seeing
A sign to ones waiting for mercy's gates to unlock
He took the downward step in the hierarchy of being

To see the sign they rushed from field's nightly mist
The great shepherd had now become a lamb unblemished
To lead and embody the covenant from their midst
Soon to defeat the beast so the flock would not perish

The heavens that declare the majesty of God
Could not stay silent of his great glory
Bright star led way to mercy about to flood
Shining light to promises of ancient story

Wise men with gifts from east were bound
To travel and see the greatest gift ever given
Men in wisdom's earnest search finally found
Heaven's wisdom in manger and wrapped in linen
 
ChrisTillinen

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So here's my Christmas poem, just 5 days too late. :LOL:
 
ebdesroches

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ChrisTillinen said:
Love springing from its eternal source
Made his Word of wisdom take on flesh
Life-giving water running its course
Brought revival to the hope made fresh

God made manifest in his creation
The love that had always been
Hope of healing for every nation
Springing forth from world unseen

By angelic word of a coming end to all strife
Into a humble small city they were led
Ones starving for grace saw the bread of life
In Beth-lehem, David's house of bread

As a precious baby in the midst of common livestock
He embodied mercy of the all-powerful and all-seeing
A sign to ones waiting for mercy's gates to unlock
He took the downward step in the hierarchy of being

To see the sign they rushed from field's nightly mist
The great shepherd had now become a lamb unblemished
To lead and embody the covenant from their midst
Soon to defeat the beast so the flock would not perish

The heavens that declare the majesty of God
Could not stay silent of his great glory
Bright star led way to mercy about to flood
Shining light to promises of ancient story

Wise men with gifts from east were bound
To travel and see the greatest gift ever given
Men in wisdom's earnest search finally found
Heaven's wisdom in manger and wrapped in linen
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I really loved this poem. Well done.
 
ChrisTillinen

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"As a precious baby in the midst of common livestock
He embodied mercy of the all-powerful and all-seeing
A sign to ones waiting for mercy's gates to unlock
He took the downward step in the hierarchy of being"

I'm not sure how correct or commonly held the following idea is, but it kind of crystallized in my mind when writing this poem. It makes sense that Jesus was born in a shed where animals were held because as human beings are higher than animals, this disparity is in a sense illustrative of the disparity and the "downward step in the hierarchy of being" that is involved in God becoming human among humans. I don't know if it's far-fetched, but at least it seems to make some sense.

I suppose one could further point out that as "Beth-lehem" means house of bread and Jesus calls himself the bread of life, it's interesting that he is placed in a manger that was normally used to feed animals.
 
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ChrisTillinen said:
"As a precious baby in the midst of common livestock
He embodied mercy of the all-powerful and all-seeing
A sign to ones waiting for mercy's gates to unlock
He took the downward step in the hierarchy of being"

I'm not sure how correct or commonly held the following idea is, but it kind of crystallized in my mind when writing this poem. It makes sense that Jesus was born in a shed where animals were held because as human beings are higher than animals, this disparity is in a sense illustrative of the disparity and the "downward step in the hierarchy of being" that is involved in God becoming human among humans. I don't know if it's far-fetched, but at least it seems to make some sense.

I suppose one could further point out that as "Beth-lehem" means house of bread and Jesus calls himself the bread of life, it's interesting that he is placed in a manger that was normally used to feed animals.
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Seems to me is he never lost His hierarchy of being, alway fully God snd Man
 
ChrisTillinen

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ebdesroches said:
Seems to me is he never lost His hierarchy of being, alway fully God snd Man
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Correct. I didn't mean to deny that. But still, in light of texts like Philippians 2:5-11, it seems it's proper to say that there was a sense in which it was a "step down". He remained fully God in his divine nature, but as he took on the human nature in addition to his divine nature, the second person of the Trinity took part of the created order, which involved a kind of "humbling" and voluntarily accepting a lower position. Willingness to "make his hands dirty" in a sense.
 
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In fact, the idea mentioned above only works if we assume that the Son did indeed remain God during his earthly life. Just like a baby does not cease to be a baby when placed among animals, he was fully God while on earth.
 
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I haven't had the time to write any new poems recently. But here's a video version of this Christmas poem I wrote last year.

 
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