O Holy Night | Luke 2:1-14
What is your favorite Christmas song? The Christmas season is the “most wonderful time of the year.” It is one of the rare holidays that is celebrated by both the religious and the irreligious. One of the hallmarks of Christmas is Christmas music. It starts earlier and earlier every year. There literally are over a MILLION Christmas songs.
My truly favorite Christmas song is O Holy Night. In a small French town in 1847, a local priest asked his friend, who was a well-known poet and wine merchant, he was also a socialist who had left the church and an alcoholic, to write a Christmas hymn for the upcoming Christmas Eve service. He agreed and then asked his friend, who was a famous composer to write the music, his friend was Jewish and did not believe in Jesus. Although the writer and the composer didn’t believe in the song they wrote, they still saw the wonder and beauty of Christmas and the person of Jesus Christ. The night that Jesus was born was different than any other night and the significance is eternal.
The reason the song has been so popular ever since it was first sung in 1847 is because of the deep truths found in the lyrics that speak the very soul of every human who has ever heard it. It speaks of the pinning of the world and the appearing of the Lord that calls us to fall on our knees in worship and surrender to Jesus.