DAILY READINGS: 2 Kings 19; Jeremiah 52; 1 Timothy 3
I came down from heaven. John 6:38
Whatever did it mean for the Son of God to come down, down
from His high throne to lay aside His garment of light and take a
body of mortal flesh? The King of Glory eating food cooked in the
back kitchen of a home in Bethany! He walked the dust of earth,
rubbed shoulders with sinners, touched the leper and was touched
by the sick and ailing, yet ever holy, harmless, and undefiled. Then to
be taken by His own creatures and nailed to a cross. How far down
He came to save sinners and take them up to glory!
—J. Boyd Nicholson
Did the Lord a man become, that He might the law fulfill,
Bleed and suffer in my room; and canst thou my tongue be still?—J. Newton