Spurgeon Meditations

 

Thou shalt call his name Jesus.

Mat 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 Hisperson that he could not but love them. Certain it is, thatthere is not a spot where that hallowed foot hath trodden--thereis not a word which those blessed lips have uttered--nor athought which His loving Word has revealed--which is not to usprecious beyond all price. And this is true of the names ofChrist--they are all sweet in the believer's ear. Whether He becalled the Husband of the Church, her Bridegroom, her Friend;whether He be styled the Lamb slain from the foundation of theworld--the King, the Prophet, or the Priest--every title of ourMaster--Shiloh, Emmanuel, Wonderful, the Mighty Counsellor--every name is like the honeycomb dropping with honey, andluscious are the drops that distil from it. But if there be onename sweeter than another in the believer's ear, it is the nameof Jesus. Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps ofheaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there beone name more charming, more precious than another, it is thisname. It is woven into the very warp and woof of our psalmody.Many of our hymns begin with it, and scarcely any, that are goodfor anything, end without it. It is the sum total of alldelights. It is the music with which the bells of heaven ring; asong in a word; an ocean for comprehension, although a drop forbrevity; a matchless oratorio in two syllables; a gathering upof the hallelujahs of eternity in five letters. Jesus I love Thy charming name 'Tis music to mine ear."


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