Language is a strange thing, and we too often sing or hear what we do not understand. One of the oldest incarnation hymns, originally dating from the 1650s, is, "God rest you merry, gentlemen." That first line actually means, "May God grant you enduring peace and happiness." Much of the language of that hymn is drawn from the words and sense of Luke's Gospel, and the encounter of the shepherds with an angel from the Lord, and a host of angels. There we read of the soothing words the angel spoke, the Saviour the angel declared, the sign the angel identified, and the song which all the angels sang. God has indeed offered enduring peace and happiness to sinful men by sending his Son. If we trust in him, nothing need dismay us, for he is the Saviour, Christ the Lord, who delivers us from Satan's power and brings his own wandering sheep back into his fold.
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