Soul, Adorn Yourself with Gladness

Soul, Adorn Yourself with Gladness

LSB #636

v. 1: Soul, adorn yourself with gladness,

Leave the gloomy haunts of sadness,

Come into the daylight’s splendor,

There with joy your praises render.

Bless the One whose grace unbounded

This amazing banquet founded;

He, though heavenly, high, and holy,

Deigns to dwell with you most lowly.

Gloomy haunts of sadness. That’s what sin and death have brought into our world. That’s where many people are trapped. But as we hear at Christmas, “the people walking in darkness have seen a great light!” Our Saviour comes to lighten our darkness with His presence. But not only at Christmas, and not only when He walked this earth, but still here and now as He comes in His Body and Blood to feed us. When we approach the altar, there He is to lift us up out of the gloomy sadness of sin and death with His forgiveness, life, and salvation. Even though He is “heavenly, high, and holy” there is no place He’d rather be than here with lowly you and me. Isn’t that a wonder? A wonder than can make us glad, even in these days of great fear and distress. Our Saviour is with us! And we will be with Him forever.