Moment with Our Creator: 2 Peter 1:19

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. . .You must pay close attention to what they [the prophets] wrote, for their words are like a lamp shining in a dark place—until the Day dawns, and Christ the Morning Star shines in your hearts.

2 Peter 1:19, NLT

The nativity story overflows with fulfilled prophecies, which is one of the reasons I love the carol “O Come, O Come Emmanuel.” This hymn is saturated with scriptures from both the Old and New Testaments. Today’s scripture photo highlights one of the Bible verses on which the following stanza is based.

"O come, Thou Bright and Morning Star,
and bring us comfort from afar!
Dispel the shadows of the night
and turn our darkness into light.

Rejoice, Rejoice! Immanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel."
-Latin Hymn*

* Latin to English translation Neale, John M. (1851). “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” [Lyrics].

If you enjoy this carol as well, I recommend visiting the blog “From the Inside Out” by Nancy Ruegg. She is currently doing a beautiful series on this hymn. Please check out her posts titled: Come, Emmanuel and The Radiance of God’s Glory and Branch and Key

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27 thoughts on “Moment with Our Creator: 2 Peter 1:19”

  7. Beth, I’m honored you’ve directed people to my blog series about this Advent hymn! Thank you very much for your kind words and invitation. It’s been a blessing to me to meditate through the lyrics these past few weeks. And as you know, we bloggers always pray our posts will be meaningful and give uplift to others. I do praise God for his inspiration!

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  8. This photo of Adi and Summer “paying close attention” would make a beautiful wall hanging, Beth. It’s a classic. And thank you for the reminder of my favorite Christmas hymn, “O Come, O Come Immanuel.”

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  9. Yes, great photo and song. We have had a lot of dreary days here. Christmas is a colorful season (like the photo) in message and song in (these days) our drab world.
    I have this song slated for Sunday worship on Christmas eve here.

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    1. Thank you Gary. Though I do wonder how this picture would have turned out had it been taken by a photographer like yourself with an artist’s eye and much higher quality camera. I’m afraid my Samsung phone camera didn’t quite catch the full glory of colors and light playing through the clouds. I can’t think of a better song to be sung on Christmas Eve. What a blessing for those attending the service. We had our first snowfall of the year this week. Only a 1/4 inch but enough to send the dogs into a flurry of excitement as they each raced around the yard doing puppy zoomies.

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    1. A sunrise, and one that kept getting better and better. I had taken the dogs on a run in the fields behind my childhood home over Thanksgiving when I captured this photo. The heavens were truly declaring God’s glory that morning.

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