Morning By Morning #272

From heaven the LORD looks down and sees all mankind.

Psalm 33:13

From the pen of Charles Spurgeon:

Perhaps nothing describes our Lord with more grace than when He is shown as humbly stooping from His throne, descending from heaven to attend to the needs and woes of mankind. We love Him who would not destroy the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah until He had personally visited them. (See Gen. 19.) We cannot help but pour out love to Him who inclines His ear from the highest glory, listening to the lips of a dying sinner whose failing heart longs for reconciliation with God. How can we not love Him when we know “the very hairs of [our] head[s] are all numbered” (Matt. 10:30), “the race [is] marked out for us” (Heb. 12:1), and our “steps…are ordered by the LORD” (Ps. 37:23 KJV)?

As we consider how attentive He is to us, another great truth is that He is not merely focused on the temporal needs of His people but also on our spiritual concerns. And although there is a vast distance between the infinite Creator and us as His finite creatures, there are bonds uniting us with Him. For instance, when you shed a tear, never think God does not see, for “as a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him” (Ps. 103:13). Even your sigh is able to move the heart of Jehovah, your whisper can incline His ear toward you, your prayer can stop His hand, and your faith can move His arm.

Never think God is enthroned on high, paying no attention to you. Remember—no matter how “poor and needy” you may be, “the Lord think[s] of [you]” (Ps. 40:17). “For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him” (2 Chron. 16:9).

Oh! Then repeat the truth that never tires;

No God is like the God my soul desires;

He at whose voice heaven trembles, even He,

Great as He is, knows how to stoop to me.

Madame Jeanne-Marie Guyon, 1648 – 1717

From the pen of Jim Reimann:

Our Lord Jesus left His throne, humbling Himself to become man. He identified with us as man so we may identify with Him in His glory. And Paul says we are to identify with Him in His humility as well:

Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Philippians 2:5 – 11

God, thank You for our humble Savior—the “LORD OF LORDS” (Rev. 19:16)!