If Christ had never come, the world would know no peace.
In vengeance and ever-striving, the wars would never cease.
If Christ had never come, each home would know no rest.
In selfish love and folly, tender care would soon divest.
If Christ had never come, no answer for sickness and disease would have had its way.
Through unrelenting anguish, pain’s suffering, it would betray.
If Christ had never come, death would have its sting.
From all the pitiless and eternal voids, hope would never spring.
If Christ had never come, the sharp teeth of hate would ever roam.
Amid cruel anger and spite, love would have no home.
If Christ had never come, no anthems spreading joy across a hurting world would ever be told.
Only despair and bitter confusion, a good word it sadly could not uphold.
If Christ had never come, no pine wreaths across fireplace mantles would there be hung.
In churches or on porches, no carols would ever be sung.
If Christ had never come, no gatherings for gospel truth would be preached each Lord’s day.
Only business and distractions, evil deeds easily holding sway.
If Christ had never come, there would be no solace for a dying child.
Only bitterness and despair, eternal rest with God reviled.
If Christ had never come, shallow comfort would only be offered for each funeral gathering.
Hollowness and trivial condolences, words would end in stammering.
If Christ had never come, the creation, still in labor, would groan.
In hardness and exploitation, still ravaged and alone.
If Christ had never come, man’s hope for redemption would find its bitter end.
Restlessness and discontent, every day, he would contend.
If Christ had never come, soon, every longing, aching heart would for all time break.
In discouragement and disappointment, deep sadness, it could never shake.
And yet, Christ did come; to this world, His love, display.
A perfect sacrifice required; for sinners to the Father, He made the only way.
And so, each year, on the twenty-fifth of December,
We pause and reflect on Jesus Christ’s first advent, and we remember.
Indeed, we remember He came to bring us peace, to offer true rest from the Law’s demands, to promise us hope in our suffering, and still beyond the grave. Christ came to reconcile us to God in an unshakeable relationship that secures our identity as sons and daughters of the King.
Thus, on this Christmas day, let your heart so sing…
Yes, let it ring out with joy to Jesus Christ, the King.
Merry Christmas!
“…looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.”
Titus 2:13-14
— December 25, 2025