Brown's Daily Word 12-12-13

Praise the Lord for the songs of the season.  Alice and I drove down to Baltimore yesterday and got back home in the evening.  I read "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens and listened to Christmas songs and carols all the way down and all the way back.  Praise the Lord for the sweet and powerful carols and the songs of Christmas.  We are excited about our Living Nativity that will be  presented at the Oakdale Mall, Center Court, on Saturday, December 21, 2013 between 4 and 7 PM. We are praying and planning to have the Hallelujah Chorus sung. . . Flash Mob style.  The lead pianist that plays for the Handel's Messiah  presentation and also is the professor at the Binghamton University has agreed to play for the singing of the Hallelujah Chorus.  The Messiah in entirety also will be presented at the Binghamton High School Auditorium on 20th and 21st of December 2013 at 8Pm each night.  We are planning to sing the Hallelujah Chorus at the mall at Center Court between 5 and 5:15 PM on Saturday, December 21, 2013.  Some of the singers from the Downtown Singers' presentation of the Messiah will be joining   for this spectacular event.  All of you who love to sing and want to sing please join for this Holy event.  It will be a  blast.   It will be a Holy Roar! We will post the exact time of the singing once it is confirmed.  As of now it will be between 5:00 PM and 5:15 pm.  Please pray that this will bring glory to Jesus and blessings to people. 

    One of the  lead singers for Messiah was a young woman named Mary.  We find her rendition of the song in Luke 1.  It is called "the Magnificat"

When Mary got the news from the angel, telling her that she was going to have a baby, Immanuel, Messiah, to bless the world, she sang a Christmas carol.  Listen to what Mary sang.

    And Mary said,

        "My soul magnifies the Lord,

        and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,

        for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant.

        Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed;

        for the Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is His name.

        His mercy is for those who fear Him from generation to generation.

        He has shown strength with His arm;

        He has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts.

        He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty."

        Mary sang of a world turned upside down, of those who are high and exalted being brought low, of those who are poor and hungry being filled, all by the advent of a baby.  Mary got her own life turned upside down by that angel Gabriel.  Then she sang of a child in her womb who was going to dislodge, disrupt, disturb.

    Later, one of the charges against the Christians, followers of the babe, was, "These people are turning the whole world upside down" (Acts 17:6).  So think of Christmas as a time when God began turning things upside down.  Jesus our Savior came down to the world to turn it upside down and right side up.  He is still doing it.  Blessed be His Name.

In Christ,

   Brown
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