This week I are going to be sharing the story behind my song, Silver and Gold, from the recording Jernigan Family Christmas. I received this particular song on October 3, 1995.
If you know me, you know I absolutely LOVE Christmas! Always have. I love the decorations! I love the music! I love the gathering of family and friends! But most of all, I love the fact that God gave us the gift of all gifts on that day! I love celebrating the birth of my Savior!
While I love even most of the secular songs of Christmas, they hold little value beyond sentimentality and mere entertainment. They do not hold a Christmas candle to the power of conveying the gift of Jesus Christ to this lost world! While my children were young and still all at home, I tried to create meaningful Christmas songs that would convey this gift to them. One day, while enjoying the trimmings in the house and on the tree, I was transported to a place of seeing them - the decorations - from God’s point of view. Let’s take a quick look at the lyrics and I’ll show you what I mean.
Verse one begins…
Silver and gold hang from the tree
Royal in color, they remind me
Of a King born in a manger
Who hung from a tree
Shining through darkness for me
Why should the world dictate to us the meaning of one of our most holy days? One of the ways I take back such stolen ground is to see what was stolen from God’s point of view…like the colors of silver and gold tinsel on the tree…
Chorus
Silver and gold
They’re the colors of a King
Who left His throne
Gave up everything
The treasure I hold
Is the life He died to bring
Like silver and gold
For the birthday of my King.
Verse two is one of my favorites from the song because it speaks to the saving, cleansing power of the blood of Christ.
Verse Two
Crimson and white light up the tree
A red flowing river, a life-giving stream
Like a snowfall in the winter that leaves this world clean
Making way for new life in the spring
Chorus Two
Crimson and white, they’re the colors of a King
Who pierced through the night
And washed my heart clean
Crimson and white join to color me redeemed
Crimson and white, colors of a heart made clean.
John 3:16-17 tells us why Jesus came to the world…why He is the greatest gift of all time: 16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. 17 "For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.”
Let us take back what the enemy has stolen from the meaning of Christmas…one decoration and one declaration at a time. Let us see Christmas from His point of view this year.
Dennis Jernigan
To hear The Dennis Jernigan Podcast version of this blog and the song, Silver and Gold, go to http://podcast.dennisjernigan.com/e/silver-and-gold/
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