Wonderful

‘His name shall be called Wonderful.” — IsA. ix. VERY boy and girl knows that names are nouns. All the other names of Jesus are nouns. But here is a name that is an adjective; so we may use it not only as a name by itself, but as an adjective to all His other names; and the more’ we know Him and love Him, the more we shall delight in this.

If we know Jesus as our Saviour at all, we shall be quite sure that He is a Wonderful Saviour. And if we grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (2 Pet. iii. ), we shall find more and more, year by year, and even day by day, what a Wonderful Friend, and Wonderful Gift, and Wonderful High-Priest, and Wonderful everything else He is.

When you see a wonderful sight don’t you always want others to see it first thing? And if you can not bring them to see it, don’t you want to tell about it, try to give them an idea of it? So I think one proof that we have really found Jesus is that we shall want others to come and see (John i. ) what a wonderful Saviour we have found.

Jesus is Wonderful in what He is. Even the angels must have wondered to see the Son of God, whom they all worship (Heb. i, ), lying in a manger as a helpless and poor little baby. But I think they must have wondered more still when they saw “Him taken and by wicked hands crucified and slain” (Acts il. ). They must have marveled indeed then at the love of Christ which passeth knowledge (Eph. iit. yet He was not dying for them, but for you. So the poorest little child may say, “‘ Thy love to me was wonderful” (2 Sam. i. ie

Everything that He did was wonderful. Isaiah said that many should be astonished at Him (Isa. lii. ); and I want you to see how exactly that was fulfilled. Look in the first seven chapters of St. Mark, and you will see it five times mentioned that they were astonished or amazed at Him.

And His words were not less wonderful, for, as Nicodemus said, “no man ever spake like this Man” (John vii. )-. ookaam the 4th chapter of St. Luke, and you will see how even those who did not love Him wondered (ver. ), and were astonished (ver. ) and amazed (ver. ) at His words. If we wonder at His gracious words to us now, how much more shall we wonder when we see Him on the throne of His glory, and hear His own voice say to us, “‘ Come, ye blessed!”’ (Matt. xxv. ).

O Bringer of salvation,
Who wondrously hast wrought,
Thyself the revelation
Of love beyond our thought:
We worship Thee, we bless Thee,
To Thee alone we sing;
We praise Thee, and confess Thee
Our gracious Lord and King!