What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?
What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit[a] him?
5
For You have made him a little lower than [b]the angels,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
6
You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
7
All sheep and oxen—
Even the beasts of the field,
8
The birds of the air,
And the fish of the sea
That pass through the paths of the seas.
Psalm 8:4-8
Therefore my Father loves me, because I lay down my life, so that I might take it again. {John 10:17}
Our Lord Jesus here speaks of himself in his complex personality as God and Man, the Mediator between God and men. As such, he comes to us first at Bethlehem, “wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger.” We behold him a babe, a child, a man, a worker, a sufferer, a witness for the truth, and a victim condemned to die upon the tree. We behold him dead in the grave, and risen again as the Mediator between God and man.
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CONSIDER THE FATHER’S LOVE FOR CHRIST JESUS BECAUSE OF HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION.
This love was extremely sweet to Jesus. Persecuted by men, and sometimes depressed in his own spirit, he comforts himself with this, “Therefore my Father loves me, because I lay down my life, so that I might take it again.” To be well pleasing to the Father was everything with our Lord Jesus Christ. In heaviest toil, in darkest slander, in deepest perplexity, if his Father only said, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased,” Jesus was refreshed with food which others did not know about. Beloved, let us be like our Lord Jesus in this — let the love of the Father for us be our comfort, our joy, our strength, our hope, our heaven. What more can men or angels have than the love of God?
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Nobody can love us more than Jesus can.
And the son of man that You visit[a] him?
5
For You have made him a little lower than [b]the angels,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
6
You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
7
All sheep and oxen—
Even the beasts of the field,
8
The birds of the air,
And the fish of the sea
That pass through the paths of the seas.
Psalm 8:4-8
Therefore my Father loves me, because I lay down my life, so that I might take it again. {John 10:17}
Our Lord Jesus here speaks of himself in his complex personality as God and Man, the Mediator between God and men. As such, he comes to us first at Bethlehem, “wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger.” We behold him a babe, a child, a man, a worker, a sufferer, a witness for the truth, and a victim condemned to die upon the tree. We behold him dead in the grave, and risen again as the Mediator between God and man.
[image]
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CONSIDER THE FATHER’S LOVE FOR CHRIST JESUS BECAUSE OF HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION.
This love was extremely sweet to Jesus. Persecuted by men, and sometimes depressed in his own spirit, he comforts himself with this, “Therefore my Father loves me, because I lay down my life, so that I might take it again.” To be well pleasing to the Father was everything with our Lord Jesus Christ. In heaviest toil, in darkest slander, in deepest perplexity, if his Father only said, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased,” Jesus was refreshed with food which others did not know about. Beloved, let us be like our Lord Jesus in this — let the love of the Father for us be our comfort, our joy, our strength, our hope, our heaven. What more can men or angels have than the love of God?
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Nobody can love us more than Jesus can.
61-69, M
