Love Has Come

Christmas morning starts from a parent's vantage point: “Hurry now wake up your eyes,” little ones are about to find a surprise “beneath the Christmas tree.” Amy Grant lets the speaker see their own childhood in the kids' faces, “like a fairytale come true,” before the chorus lifts the view to the larger story: “Love has come / For the world to know.”

That chorus ties the living room to Bethlehem, pointing to the wisemen and to angels singing that “hope had begun” when the God of Glory, “full of mercy,” sent His Son. The second verse returns to the toys and the hunt to “look high and low,” then sets them against a claim: no gift compares to “Jesus' love inside.” The presents are not scolded, only placed second to the greatest gift the world has known.

Luke 2:11 gives the birth announcement behind the angels' song, John 3:16 the sending of the Son that the chorus echoes, and Matthew 2:11 the wise men's gifts that frame the line about those who knew “such a long time ago.”