serenade me.
A Baby Will Come
As I get older, I’ve realized how much in my life I’ve taken for granted. And how everything around me, every piece of nature from the construction of a cell to the magnificent Milky Way is so complex and absolutely magnificent. An unrefutable sign of a creative Creator.
And as Christmas is nearing, I am also taken back at a baby. The Baby. The reason we have life. Our Saviour. Our King.
This song “A Baby Will Come” was written by Bill Wolf (sung by Emilee Cook) and he sums it up as his commentary on “Mary’s Magnificat” (Luke 1:46-55) (see below).
Mary’s Song of Praise: The Magnificat
46And Mary said,
“My soul magnifies the Lord,
47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
48for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant.
For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed;
49for he who is mighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his name.
50And his mercy is for those who fear him
from generation to generation.
51 He has shown strength with his arm;
he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts;
52 he has brought down the mighty from their thrones
and exalted those of humble estate;
53he has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich he has sent away empty.
54He has helped his servant Israel,
in remembrance of his mercy,
55as he spoke to our fathers,
to Abraham and to his offspring forever.”
“As I was researching the social climate of that time and place, I realized just how dire the lives of the Israelites would’ve been. Between the brutal conquests of the Roman Empire under Caesar Augustus and the obscene taxation of Herod, King of Judea…they found themselves enslaved once again, but this time it was in their very own backyard. The Promised Land no longer felt like the Promised Land. And into that climate, a young adolescent Jewish girl was visited by an angel of God and told that she would give birth to a baby boy and His name would be “Salvation”; his very name would mean “Liberation” for her and her people. In a moment of joy and restraint, Mary sat down and wrote her Magnificat; a poem that is on one hand personal and introspective, but on the other hand, charged with social and political revolutionary language.”
-Bill Wolf, A Baby Will Come
This song sums up in few words the simplicity and yet the power behind the meaning of that Baby coming and saving us from ourselves.
So in the midst of all of the Christmas commercialism in our modern society, remember that “the Baby has come”.
A Baby Will Come
(verse 1)
The kings of this world
Have torn it apart
But we can take heart
A baby will come
(verse 2)
To the hungry and meek
To those who grieve
To the broken, in need
A baby will come
(verse 3)
We have known pain
We’ve felt death’s sting
God, help us believe
This baby will come
(verse 4)
The angel appeared
Said do not fear
For peace is here
A baby has come
(verse 5)
The advent of life
Let hope arise
We’ve our Savior in Christ
The Baby has come
(verse 6)
We’ve waited so long
God, for Your mighty arm
May our doubts ever calm
For the Baby has come
(verse 7)
The proud will be low
And the humble will know
They’re valued and loved
For the Baby has come
(verse 8)
‘Cause the kings of this world
Won’t have the last word
That, God, is Yours
For the Baby has come
