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The greatest love of all is, I think, expressed in the magnificent Lutheran Christmas hymn by Paul Gerhardt in 1653.
"O Jesus Christ, Thy manger is...My paradise at which my soul reclineth...For there, O Lord, Doth lie the Word...Made flesh for us...herein Thy grace forth shineth.
He whom the sea and wind obey...Doth come to serve the sinner in great meekness...Thou, God's own Son, With us art one,...Dost join us and our children in our weakness.
Thy light and grace our guilt efface...Thy heavenly riches all our loss retrieving...Immanuel, Thy birth doth quell...The power of hell and Satan's bold deceiving.
Thou Christian heart, whoe'er thou art...Be of good cheer adn let no sorrow move thee...For God's own Child, in mercy mild...joins thee to Him; how greatly God must love thee! Amen."
Merry Christmas for God has become man to redeem us in and through the human nature!