Thurs Devo: Go, Tell It on the Mountain!

I’m taking a break from our adoption story this week to wish you all a Merry Christmas!

During the Christmas season, my family had a few traditions that we have started now with our new children! At dinner time each night we light the advent candles, sing a Christmas carol, pick a Christmas card we’ve received and pray for the person that sent it to us. James and Sarah love to participate by praying themselves for the person, trying to sing along to the carol, or blowing out the candles at the end of dinner.

One of the kids’ favorite carols is “Go, Tell It on the Mountain,” probably because it’s upbeat, has a catchy chorus and I added hand motions to it. The message of the carol is great for us all to focus on or sing in our heads throughout the day!   

Chorus:

Go, tell it on the mountain
Over the hills and everywhere
Go, tell it on the mountain
That Jesus Christ is born

Verses:

While shepherds kept their watching
Oe’r silent flocks by night
Behold throughout the heavens
There shone a holy light

The shepherds feared and trembled
When lo! above the earth
Rang out the angel chorus
That hailed our Savior's birth

Down in a lowly manger

Our humble Christ was born

And God sent us salvation

That blessed Christmas morn

John 10:14-18         ¹⁴ “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— ¹⁵ just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. ¹⁶ I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. ¹⁷ The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. ¹⁸ No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”

Who will you and I share the message of Christmas with this week who isn’t already part of God’s sheep pen? The Savior of the world left His secure home with God to experience all the pain of this world. He then willingly died on the cross and rose from the dead to provide salvation to those who believe!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Alice