O, Soul, Feel Thy Worth

advent sonnet written to my soul

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Long lay the world in sin and error pining; 
till He returned and the soul felt its worth.

“O Holy Night”

Advent Poem I | Inspired by “O Holy Night”
”O, Soul, Feel Thy Worth”

O, soul, dost thou still feelest not thy worth,
When the fullness of God was pleased to dwell
In a body born from the earth He birthed,
Unveiling Yahweh as Immanuel?
And when light unrobed put not sin to death,
He bled love untarnished 'neath darkness' blade;
The Divine chose the dusts of human flesh
Then lay His own bones in a sinner's grave. 
This babe's sacred blood was drained to fill
Thy soul with the Spirit that searches God.
We thought incarnation beyond His will
Yet He bore the flesh to unrobe thy sod. 
Thus, the divine took on humanity,
To make us temples of divinity.

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