CHRIST the COMING ONE: “For yet a little while, and He who is coming will come and will not tarry” (Heb 10:37). F.E. Marsh writes: There is a pathos-filled incident in the life of Hugh Miller. He tells how, after his father had left home on his ship, he used to go and watch for […]
“CHRIST is ALL” (Col 3:11). Christ is all in creation and in control: “For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, […]
CHRIST UNSEEN yet SEEN: “The world will see Me no more, but you will see Me” (Jn 14:19). F.B. Meyer writes, “We may enjoy the perpetual recognition of the presence of Christ. Nothing makes men so humble yet so strong as the vision of Christ. When Isaiah beheld His glory more resplendent than the sheen […]
CHRIST the ALTOGETHER LOVELY ONE (Song of Sol 5:16): This world, though fallen, still catches us by surprise with its beauty. Who can capture in words the blazing hues of the autumn foliage somehow painted on the leaves by the pale fingers of the frost? But surely there are more beautiful sights than this! Earth is […]
CHRIST’S NAME ABOVE EVERY NAME (Php 2:9). Early Christians often referred to “the Name” as though the word stood for the Lord Jesus Himself, as if there was no other name that mattered. We read how they preached concerning the Name, though forbidden to speak to anyone in this Name. Yet speak they must, “for […]
CHRIST the WORD of GOD (Rev 19:13): The Lord Jesus Christ dominates the Scriptures as the sun dominates our solar system. As the Eternal Son, He acts through creation and history. As the virgin’s Son, He joins the stream of our race, the tributary destined to unite the currents of Jew and Gentile, and to […]
CHRIST the CAPTOR of our THOUGHTS. The weapons Paul used were not fleshly, but mighty through God—the weapons which the Holy Spirit supplies. And this spiritual warfare means “the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to […]
“We preach CHRIST CRUCIFIED” (1 Cor 1:23). What self-respecting Jew would ever glory in a cross, the embodiment of a curse and shame? Erich Sauer writes in his classic In the Arena of Faith: Years ago we were in the Colosseum…the scene of Nero’s persecution of Christians…What streams of martyr blood had flowed on this […]
CHRIST the HIGHEST (Isa 52:13). David Baron, in The Servant of Jehovah, explains, “The climax in the height of Christ’s exaltation, as set forth by the three verbs in this sentence, is expressed by the word m’od, literally, “very much,” with which the sentence ends. ‘He shall be exalted and lifted up and be high […]