Dustin Kensrue‘s This Is War is my favorite Christmas song this year (If you don’t already own his Christmas album, I highly recommend you get it). At a local church, I recently heard Kensrue describe the song as another perspective on the Christmas story. He compared it to an act of war or “D-day”… God’s full-force offensive against all evil and darkness.
I love that.
Ransom.tv finally released their video interview with Kensrue with further musings on what the song means to him… an encouraging reminder this season.
This Is War
This is war like you ain’t seen.
This winter’s long, it’s cold and mean.
With hangdog hearts we stood condemned,
But the tide turns now at Bethlehem.
This is war and born tonight,
The Word as flesh, the Lord of Light,
The Son of God, the low-born king;
Who demons fear, of whom angels sing.
This is war on sin and death;
The dark will take it’s final breath.
It shakes the earth, confounds all plans;
The mystery of God as man.
The song was originally released on Dustin’s 2008 Christmas album This Good Night Is Still Everywhere. Get it.
