An Advent Reveille

Sometimes when daybreak kindles the eastward horizonin flaming appeal, (like yesterday morning!!) it rushes the air like a celestial ,beckoning us to rise and 'shine' ! Do not grow weary in love’s dues bearing eternal worthContinue to tell the Good News of the Messiah’s birthContinue to proclaim the Name, commanding prophecyTell the world of Jesus who came to set sin’s captive free The ‘last days’ prophets long foretold, on that first Christmas mornBegan to fulfill and unfold when Jesus Christ was bornJesus, knowing the dreadful price of His sinless blood shedCame to become sin’s final sacrifice and crush Death’s head Then pray, do not cease to proclaim He who conquered the graveSalvation knows no other Name; Jesus, mighty to saveStepped from His divine station to suffer redemption’s rod Then do not faint, but hail the Name of Jesus every mornGood tidings of great joy proclaim; a Savior has been bornFor God so loves the world, He gave His only Son to beSin’s off’ring once for all, to save and set condemned souls free Joy to the world, the Prince of Peace is trustworthy and trueSomeday the wars of earth will cease and all will be made newTill then, continue to proclaim the angel’s hymn. ExtolThe Good News; JESUS is His Name, the Savior of the soul Janet Martin Acts 3:18-26But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. 19 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 20 and that He may send []Jesus Christ, who was []preached to you before, 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since []the world began. 22 For Moses truly said to the fathers, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you. 23 And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’ 24 Yes, and all the prophets, from Samuel and those who follow, as many as have spoken, have also []foretold these days. 25 You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’ 26 To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.”