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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Why did He choose a northern maid<br>From Nazareth, who had to trade<br>Her Galilee for Judah just<br>To get Messiah where He must<br>Be born? A strange and roundabout<br>Procedure for a God, no doubt,<br>Who values His efficiency<br>And rules the world from sea to sea!<br>Why not a girl from Bethlehem?<br>Well half the girls in town would stem<br>From David's line. And carpenters<br>Aplenty there could bear the slurs<br>And gossip on a virgin got<br>with child, who blushed and said she'd not<br>Once kissed her man this whole year past.<br>Why not? Because God's power is vast,<br>And in one little virgin birth<br>His sovereign joy and mighty mirth<br>In saving us from evil bent<br>Could never, never rest content.<br>Instead He turned and set His sight<br>To spangle Rome with all His might;<br>And took a girl from Galilee<br>To magnify His sovereignty.<br>And made the Roman king conspire<br>With God, to serve a purpose higher<br>Than he or any in the realm<br>Could see—a stroke to overwhelm<br>A few with faith and cause their heart<br>To know the truth, at least in part,<br>That, though God loves efficiency<br>And rules the world from sea to sea,<br>He does not go from here to there<br>By shortest routes to save His fare.<br>He'd rather start in Galilee,<br>Then pass a law in Rome, you see,<br>To get the child down south at length,<br>And magnify His sovereign strength.<br>God rules the flukes of history<br>To see that Micah's prophecy<br>Comes true. Why did He choose a maid<br>From Nazareth? Perhaps she prayed<br>That endless mercy might abound<br>And take the longer way around.<br>The mighty mercy we adore<br>As we light advent candle four.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Why did He choose a northern maid<br>From Nazareth, who had to trade<br>Her Galilee for Judah just<br>To get Messiah where He must<br>Be born? A strange and roundabout<br>Procedure for a God, no doubt,<br>Who values His efficiency<br>And rules the world from sea to sea!<br>Why not a girl from Bethlehem?<br>Well half the girls in town would stem<br>From David's line. And carpenters<br>Aplenty there could bear the slurs<br>And gossip on a virgin got<br>with child, who blushed and said she'd not<br>Once kissed her man this whole year past.<br>Why not? Because God's power is vast,<br>And in one little virgin birth<br>His sovereign joy and mighty mirth<br>In saving us from evil bent<br>Could never, never rest content.<br>Instead He turned and set His sight<br>To spangle Rome with all His might;<br>And took a girl from Galilee<br>To magnify His sovereignty.<br>And made the Roman king conspire<br>With God, to serve a purpose higher<br>Than he or any in the realm<br>Could see—a stroke to overwhelm<br>A few with faith and cause their heart<br>To know the truth, at least in part,<br>That, though God loves efficiency<br>And rules the world from sea to sea,<br>He does not go from here to there<br>By shortest routes to save His fare.<br>He'd rather start in Galilee,<br>Then pass a law in Rome, you see,<br>To get the child down south at length,<br>And magnify His sovereign strength.<br>God rules the flukes of history<br>To see that Micah's prophecy<br>Comes true. Why did He choose a maid<br>From Nazareth? Perhaps she prayed<br>That endless mercy might abound<br>And take the longer way around.<br>The mighty mercy we adore<br>As we light advent candle four.</div></td></tr>
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''God loves to "magnify His sovereign strength." This is the answer to the question John Piper poses in the poem "Mighty Mercy": Why did God choose such "strange and roundabout" providence "[t]o get Messiah where He must be born?" This poem exalts God's absolute sovereignty in the "flukes of history."''<br />
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Why did He choose a northern maid<br>From Nazareth, who had to trade<br>Her Galilee for Judah just<br>To get Messiah where He must<br>Be born? A strange and roundabout<br>Procedure for a God, no doubt,<br>Who values His efficiency<br>And rules the world from sea to sea!<br>Why not a girl from Bethlehem?<br>Well half the girls in town would stem<br>From David's line. And carpenters<br>Aplenty there could bear the slurs<br>And gossip on a virgin got<br>with child, who blushed and said she'd not<br>Once kissed her man this whole year past.<br>Why not? Because God's power is vast,<br>And in one little virgin birth<br>His sovereign joy and mighty mirth<br>In saving us from evil bent<br>Could never, never rest content.<br>Instead He turned and set His sight<br>To spangle Rome with all His might;<br>And took a girl from Galilee<br>To magnify His sovereignty.<br>And made the Roman king conspire<br>With God, to serve a purpose higher<br>Than he or any in the realm<br>Could see—a stroke to overwhelm<br>A few with faith and cause their heart<br>To know the truth, at least in part,<br>That, though God loves efficiency<br>And rules the world from sea to sea,<br>He does not go from here to there<br>By shortest routes to save His fare.<br>He'd rather start in Galilee,<br>Then pass a law in Rome, you see,<br>To get the child down south at length,<br>And magnify His sovereign strength.<br>God rules the flukes of history<br>To see that Micah's prophecy<br>Comes true. Why did He choose a maid<br>From Nazareth? Perhaps she prayed<br>That endless mercy might abound<br>And take the longer way around.<br>The mighty mercy we adore<br>As we light advent candle four.<br />
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