Christmas, Day 5: Thorn and Thistle

LOOK: Illustration by Stephen Procopio

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LISTEN: “Thorn and Thistle” by We Are Messengers, feat. Keith and Kristyn Getty, on Rejoice! (A Celtic Christmas) (2024)

To a world of thorn and thistle
Shadowed still by Eden’s fall
On a night so unexpected
Enters the Lord of all

In a cold and stony manger
Swaddled in a linen cloth
Into darkness, into danger
Born now is heaven’s Love

Holy hands with fragile fingers
Our redemption in his veins
To a world of thorn and thistle
Jesus came

Child of heaven, Man of Sorrows
Bitter is the earth’s betrayal
Soon our pride will be the hammer
My sin will be the nail

Holy hands with fragile fingers
Our redemption in his veins
To a world of thorn and thistle
Jesus came

See how a rose is blooming
Breaks through the hardened ground
Sweet fragrance fills the winter air
Its thorn a Savior’s crown

Oh rejoice, he comes to rescue
Our redemption in his veins
To a world of thorn and thistle
Jesus came