A Wonderful Piece of Tender Mercy Indeed

And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David…That He would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve Him without fear -Luke 1:69,74

Remember that He not only took our nature, but He dwelt among us in this world of sin and sorrow. This great Prince entered our abode-what if I call it this hut and hovel?-wherein our poor humanity finds its home for a season. This little planet of ours was made to burn with a superior light among its sister stars while the Creator sojourned here in human form. He trod the acres of Samaria, and traversed the hills of Judea. “He went about doing good.” He mingled among men with scarcely any reservation; being through His purity separate from sinners as to His character, yet He was the visitor of all men. He was found eating bread with a Pharisee, which perhaps is a more wonderful thing than when He received sinners, and ate with them. A fallen woman was not too far gone for Him to sit on the kerb of the well, and talk to her; nor were any of the poor and ignorant too mean for Him to care for them. He was bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh, and His visit to us was therefore of the most intimate kind. He disdained no man’s lowliness; He turned aside from no man’s sin.

But remember that He visited us not merely to look upon us, and to talk with us, and to teach us, and set us a high and divine example, which were incomparably gracious, if it went no further; but He so visited us that He went down into our condemnation, that He might deliver us from it…He did not come into our nature, and yet keep Himself reserved from all the consequences of our sin; nor come into our world, and yet maintain a status superior to the usual denizens of it; but He came to be a man among men, and to bear all that train of woes which had fallen upon human nature through its departure from the ways of God. Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows, because the Lord hath laid upon Him the iniquity of us all. Our Lord so visited us as to become our surety and our ransom. This was a wonderful piece of tender mercy indeed. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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