HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED WONDERFUL

 

FEBRUARY 6
 
His name shall be called Wonderful.
Isaiah 9:6
 

AND he will answer to his name;
   for he is WONDERFUL.
 
Consider the constitution of his person,
  he is God, he is also man.
 
He possesses the entire nature of God,
  and the entire nature of man, and
   yet the two natures united constitute
     but one person.
 
He is therefore human and divine,
  -infinite and finite,
    -the eternal God, and
            yet really man.
 
He unites in himself heaven and earth,
  -time and eternity,
    -the Creator and the creature.
 
He is the mighty God and
   the feeble child born.
 
Truly this is wonderful:
  we can believe it, but
     we cannot comprehend it.
 
We perceive that it is, but
    we cannot perceive how it is.
 
His love also is wonderful,
  for he loves those who are the unlovely,
  and who never had any love to him.
 
There is no reason why he should love them,
  but plenty of reason why he should not.
 
And yet he loves them with all
   the strength of his nature,
  and has manifested that love in
    the most wonderful manner.
 
For them he resigned the throne of glory, and
  gave up all he possessed in heaven.
 
For them he became poor,
  was hated, persecuted, punished, and
    executed as a guilty slave.
 
Well may he be called WONDERFUL.
 

Wonderful art thou in power,

  But most wonderful in love;

Be thou all our theme below,

  Be thou all our heaven above.

 
 
James Smith 1849