Spurgeon: February AM
* 02/08/AM
"Thou shalt call his name Jesus."
--Matthew 1:21
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
Thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia," said David,
as if the very vestments of the Saviour 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 hath 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 be
called the Husband of the Church, her Bridegroom, her Friend;
whether He be 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 Counsellor--
every name is like the honeycomb dropping with honey, and
luscious are the drops that distil from it. But if there be 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 be
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, that 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 Thy charming name,
'Tis music to mine ear."