The Promise Has Come

"That glorious form, that light unsufferable,

And that far-beaming blaze of majesty,

...

He laid aside; and here with us to be,

Forsook the courts of everlasting day,

And chose with us a darksome house of mortal clay."

(from On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, John Milton)

"The Promise was love,

And the Promise was life;

The Promise meant light to the world:

Living proof that Yahweh saves,

For the name of the Promise was Jesus." (from The Promise, Michael Card)

"For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich." 2 Corinthians 8:9