T he grand design of the Saviour's coming from heaven to earth, was for the purpose of saving sinners.He came that we might find in Him a hiding place from the storm and tempest of divine wrath, which is ready to break over an ungodly world.
He came to break the chains of sin.
He came to bruise Satan under our feet.
He came to open the prison doors, and to confer on us the glorious liberty of the children of God.
He came to enrich our impoverished souls with all spiritual and heavenly blessings.
He came to lead us beside the still waters of divine grace.
He came to implant holy desires in our hearts.
He came to elevate our affections above a vain and perishing world.
He came to clothe us with the garments of salvation.
He came to give unto us who mourn in Zion,beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
He came to feed us with living bread.
He came to open for us a fountain of immortal life.
He came to pour out His Spirit upon us.
He came to guide us to the shores of Emmanuel's land.
He came to receive us to mansions of everlasting joy and glory in heaven.
He came to confer endless happiness upon myriads of our guilty race, who might justly have been left to reap the fruit of their transgression with the fallen angels, in the regions of eternal darkness and despair.
Who can tell what it is to be delivered from the thraldom of sin, and the fearful realities of hell; to be reinstated in the favour and love of God; and to be crowned with the imperishable diadem of beauty and glory through those infinite ages of bliss, which roll beyond the grave!
All that our blessed Saviour did on earth was to accomplish this great work of redemption; to glorify His Heavenly Father in the salvation of precious, immortal souls. He never failed to make this the grand design of His high mission. For this very object He became a man of sorrows.
For US Jesus visited earth, and trod the thorny path of life, until He endured the excruciating death of the Cross!
Where, in the wide universe of God, can be found an instance of love so marvellous as that which Christ displayed, when He left the throne of heavenly glory, and the songs of seraphim and cherubim, to be cradled in the manger of Bethlehem and become a man of sorrows?
How truly amazing!
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