Key Verse: "And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins."
- Matthew 1:21 KJV
When a person is dear, everything connected with him
becomes dear for his sake. Thus, so precious is the person of the Lord Jesus
in the estimation of all true believers, that everything about Him they
consider to be inestimable beyond all price. "All Your garments smell
of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia," said David, as if the very garments
of the Savior were so sweetened by His person, that he could not but love
them.
Certain it is, that there is not a spot where that hallowed foot has trodden—there is not a word which those blessed lips have uttered—nor a thought which His loving Word has revealed—which is not to us precious beyond all price. And this is true of the names of Christ—they are all sweet in the believer's ear. Whether He is called the Husband of the Church, her Bridegroom, her Friend; whether He is styled the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world—the King, the Prophet, or the Priest—every title of our Master—Shiloh, Emmanuel, Wonderful, the Mighty Counselor—every name is like the honeycomb dropping with honey, and luscious are the drops that distill from it.
But if there is one name sweeter than another in the
believer's ear, it is the name of Jesus. Jesus! it is the name which
moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys.
If there is one name more charming, more precious than another, it is this
name. It is woven into the very warp and woof of our psalmody. Many of our
hymns begin with it, and scarcely any, which are good for anything, end
without it. It is the sum total of all delights. It is the music with which
the bells of heaven ring; a song in a word; an ocean for comprehension,
although a drop for brevity; a matchless oratorio in two syllables; a
gathering up of the hallelujahs of eternity in five letters. "Jesus, I love
Your charming name—'Tis music to my ear!"
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