The Personal Wonder of the Incarnation

In Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s classic devotional, Morning and Evening, the evening reading for January 26th records his comments on Luke 2:18: “And all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds [had] told them.” Here’s a piece of what he wrote:

"That God should consider His fallen creature, man, and instead of sweeping him away with the broom of destruction should Himself undertake to be man’s Redeemer and to pay his ransom price is indeed marvelous! But to each believer redemption is most marvelous as he views it in relation to himself. It is a miracle of grace indeed that Jesus should forsake the thrones and royalties above to suffer ignominiously below for you. Let your soul lose itself in wonder."

Spurgeon goes on to say that when the heart of a man or of a woman is gripped by this wonder, it will [bring into that life] a number of things: one, “grateful worship”; two, “heartfelt thanksgiving”; three,“godly watchfulness”; and four, “glorious hope.”

Taken and adapted from a message by Alistair Begg at truthforlife.org.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2024