Songs Of Hope - Sing We Now Of ChristmasSample

How Great Our Joy

A Promise

There shall be born, so he did say,
in Bethlehem a child today.

How great our joy!

There shall the child lie in a stall,
this child who shall redeem us all.

How great our joy!

This gift of God we'll cherish well,
that ever joy our hearts shall fill.

How great our joy!
Great our joy
Joy, joy, joy

This past semester has been filled with destruction, pain, and loss for many students. In seasons of pain, joy can feel like an impossible goal. We hear this word passed around as if it is an emotion to be caught, like a ball. Is it something that we can only have for a moment before we have to pass it to another? That is not the joy that we sing of in this hymn.

Joy is God fulfilling His promises.

How great our joy in knowing that God has fulfilled His promises to us through the life of Jesus, as He said. How great our joy in knowing that this Jesus would sacrifice Himself so we can have new life, as He said.

Joy is everlasting because God fulfilled His promise and continues to fulfill promises. In the midst of the darkest days, there is joy in knowing that God is faithful to the end to do and be exactly what He said.

Joey Mainini
Student and BSM Core Leader
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor