1017. Lord, from the splendour of heaven you came

Author: Gill Berry

Lord, from the splendour of heaven you came,
entered our world in its sin and its shame
and humbly you laid all your glory aside:
born ‘Man of sorrows’, rejected, denied.

2. How can it be that the King from on high
came as a servant, to suffer and die?
The word of the Father before time began:
true Son of God, yet the true Son of Man.

3. Shepherds and sages before you bowed down;
soon you were wearing a thornier crown
and silently, led as a lamb to be slain,
bought our forgiveness and peace, through your pain.

4. “Come and adore him, your maker behold:
God’s own Messiah, as prophets foretold!
Immanuel, our God in the flesh, is now born;
people in darkness, now welcome the dawn!”