The First Noel

Music is such an incredible way to praise our awesome God! I especially love it when our choir or church congregation just lets it rip - that glorious sound of believers raising their voices to glorify God. There is just something about that single-minded purpose and intensity of praise to God for all He has done for us. Can you imagine what that will sound like when we will be singing around His throne? Wow!

Our choir is doing a cantata called "The First Noel" - this coming Sunday night. (Just a quick advertisement in case you are in the Lafayette area and would like to come... it's a 6pm at Kossuth Street Baptist Church.) There are a lot of wonderful songs, including - yup, you guessed it! - "The First Noel".

As I have been singing the songs, I have been trying to grasp what the composer was trying to convey. I think the intensity and purposed praise is what he was thinking of when he penned the last verse:

Then let us all with one accord sing praises to our heavenly Lord,
That hath made Heaven and earth of naught,
and with His blood mankind hath bought.
Noel - Born is the King of Israel.

Creation and Redemption - two themes we will bring in praise to God through all eternity!