Andrew Peterson has long been one of my favorite Christian singer-songwriters and his Christmas album is just fabulous. It's a concept album around the birth of Jesus and the history behind it. The song I've played for my students the past couple years has been So Long, Moses. It takes you from Moses, Joshua, the Judges, kings Saul, David, and Solomon, the divided kingdom, the prophets leading up to Isaiah. A big passage in the song comes from Isaiah 53. I've included this passage here so you can reflect on who Jesus really was:
Isaiah 53
1 Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
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