Majestic Message

Majestic Message

“You will name him Jesus,
because he will save his people from their sins.”

Matthew 1:21

Many of the names in the Bible that refer to our Lord are nothing less than palatial and august: Son of God, The Lamb of God, The Light of the World, The Resurrection and the Life, The Bright and Morning Star, He that Should Come, Alpha and Omega.

They are phrases that stretch the boundaries of human language in an effort to capture the uncapturable, the grandeur of God. And try as they might to draw as near as they may, they always fall short. Hearing them is somewhat like hearing a Salvation Army Christmas band on the street corner play Handel’s Messiah. Good try, but it doesn’t work. The message is too majestic for the medium.

And such it is with language. The phrase “There are no words to express . . .” is really the only one that can honestly be applied to God. No names do him justice.

God Came Near