Gilbert Tan's Third Album - In Your Temple

One Step At A Time

No Room For Jesus

Christmas 1990, Orchard Road ‘Light-up’. Winter landscapes, penguins, dolls, trumpeting angels, Santa Claus and reindeers. The commercial mood along Singapore’s premier shopping district did not allow much for the meaning of Noel. The bizarre icons displayed often have little relevance to the occasion. One shopping mall even put up ‘decorations’ of devils and trolls. Isn’t it ironical that till today, there is still "no room" for Jesus!

Lyrics:

In the streets of Bethlehem that night
they went from place to place
You can tell how weary Joseph was
by the look upon his face

And Mary felt the child in her
As baby Jesus starts to stir
Still in the end upon a manger
to this world the Saviour came
For though they tried to knock on every door
The answer was the same...

CHORUS:
No room for Jesus
No room for Him to stay
No room for Jesus
So they turned the Lord away
No room for Christ
The King of kings and Lord of lords
They had no room, no room for Him

In the city streets one Christmas eve
I walked amongst the crowd
All the things I saw just makes me wonder
What's it all about?

The glow of the lights on Christmas trees
With gifts and toys and things like these
Yet in the midst of Santa Claus
and reindeers I could hardly tell
Of where is Jesus, God among us
The Lord Immanuel?

REPEAT CHORUS

Now in the realms of paradise I stand
I saw from heaven above
Hell's a fiery furnace of lost souls
Who rejected Jesus' love

I heard their cries of agony
An endless final tragedy
Yet though the Saviour knocked upon
Their hearts' door time and time again
They had no part of Jesus and His love
Their answer was the same

Luke 2:7 And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. (NKJV)

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More Than Family