JOY TO THE WORLD

Their Lord has made known His salvation, His righteousness He has revealed in the sight of the nations.
Psalm 98:2
Going home alone from the church service to the bus stop I remembered reading a devotion the story of about the church service in Southampton England, 20-year-old Isaac watts told his father that the metrical psalms sung at their service lacked the dignity and beauty that should characterize hymns used in worship. His father encouraged him to try to create something better. So in the year 1694 Issac Watts began writing hymns, and eventually put the book of Psalms into rhyming meter for worship.
     Watts took the prophetic references to the coming Messiah in the Psalms and expressed them in their new testament fulfilment. His hymns proclaimed that Jesus Christ is Savior and Lord. When Watts came to Psalm 98, he wrote:

     Joy to the world! The Lord is come!
          Let earth receive her king:
     Let every heart prepare Him room,
          And heaven and nature sing.
     Joy to the earth! The Savior reign!
          Let men their songs employ;
     While fields and floods, rocks, hills,
          and plains
     Repeat the sounding joy.
This hymn has viral become a favorite of the Christmas season. And playing at radio station. It call us to acknowledge Christ as Savior and King, and to open our hearts to His rule of love and grace.
The psalmist wrote, "Oh, sing to the Lord a new song!" (98:1). Isaac Watts did just that in his proclamation that Christ has come, and we can rejoice in Him. So let there be light and there was light.