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Suggested Tune GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN (8.6.8.6.8.6. and refrain.)

1. Can you conceive what God conceived
in Mary's humble womb?                                 Matthew 1:20
This baby boy of David's line                          Romans 1:3
whose end was not the tomb,
but rose again in Spirit's power
to be Life for us all!                            Romans 1:4

O, Gift! Indescri-bable Gift! 2 Corinthians 9:15
Let us give thanks
for Immanuel, our God who is our Gift! Isaiah 7:14

2. Can you imagine Joseph's face
when he that news was told? Matthew 1:20-21
Who would have thought that in disgrace
our Saviour'd grace the world?
A carpenter'd be daddy to
Messiah long foretold!

O, Gift! Indescri-bable Gift!
Let us give thanks
for Immanuel, our God who is our Gift!

3. Though we may eat the bread of tears,
or drink them by the bowl,                        Psalm 80:5
We will rejoice in God with us,
our Lord Immanuel,                                 Isaiah 7:14
for God has walked our dusty road
and shared our humble meals:                   Matthew 9:11

O, Gift! Indescri-bable Gift!
Let us give thanks
for Immanuel, our God who is our Gift!

4. And when we see the manger now,
we also see the cross
to which Immanuel was nailed
for giving up so much:
He gave up Glory, then His life,
He gave the Holy Ghost:

O, Gift! Indescri-bable Gift!
Let us give thanks
for Immanuel, our God who is our Gift!

Based on Revised Common Lectionary (A) for 4th Sunday in Advent :

Isaiah 7:10-16; Psalm 80:1-7,17-19 ;Romans 1:1-7 ; Matthew 1:18-25

and inspired by a sermon by Anthony Fleetwood on 27 November 2005