Advent Hymn #2: Away With Our Fears [Reprise]

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This song captures the inscrutable reality of the Divine taking up residence among the mundane. The Father present as Child. God's holiness revealed in this human. The Christmas season might beg the question, "Why this way God?" Wesley helps us remember that even in this mystery we can find beauty, hope, and an end to fear if we will let God enter as God plans.

Away With Our Fears
words by Charles Wesley, music by Carl Thomas Gladstone

Immanuel’s birth
Immanuel's birth
What triumph on earth!
Yet could it afford
Yet could it afford
No better a place for its heavenly Lord?

Away with our fears!
Away with our fears!
The Godhead appears
In Christ reconciled
O, Christ reconciled
The Father of mercies in Jesus the Child.

Made flesh for our sake
Made flesh for our sake
That we might partake
The nature divine,
The nature divine
Again in His image, His holiness shine.

And while we are here,
While we are here
Our King shall appear,
His Spirit impart,
His Spirit impart
And form His full image of love in our heart.

A heavenly birth,
A heavenly birth.
Experience on earth,
And rise to His throne,
And rise to His throne,
And life with our Jesus eternally One.