Royalty, born in a stable
with no regal robes to wear.
Wrapped in bands, oft used as grave clothes.
He would die, our sins to bear.
Paradox beyond explaining
that the highest of the high
chose to live in flesh among us,
learning what it is to cry.
Strategy of God, victorious,
subtle enemies to foil;
ruthless tyrants thus evading,
identified with men of toil.
Sinless spirit - human body -
with no taint of sin or guile,
demonstrating that one human
did live justly all the while.
Prophecies of old fulfilling,
so precisely - not a few
giving details of his coming -
life, death, resurrection, too.
Mystery - that his great power
so transforms a sinful soul,
changing lives from loss to profit,
untamed drives to self-control.
Destiny? There's no more guessing.
Heaven and earth shall both be new.
Christ came down to live among us.
We shall rise when life is through.
fpn 12/82
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