The Mighty God
His name shall be called.... the Mighty God.” — IsA. ix.
CHILDREN do not often think of this name of Jesus; but it is not only the grandest of them all, but one of the most comforting, even to a little child who feels afraid and begins to wonder whether, after all, it will get safe to heaven at last.
We have thought about how gracious Jesus is as our Saviour, and how loving He is as our Brother, and how kind He is as our Friend. And this is all true; Jesus is all that; but Heismore too. Now let us think of Him as the Mighty God, and learn how great and glorious and strong our own dear Saviour and Friend is. Now we see why He is able to do everything for us, and why
He is so mighty to save (Isa. lxiii. ): Of course He is! for this same Jesus is “the Mighty God.”
More than seven hundred years before He was born as a little child His name was foretold; it was to be Immanuel, and that meant, God with us (Isa. vii. ). Then, in the next chapter, God’s people were encouraged not to be afraid, even though enemies came
against them, strong and many (Isa. viii. ), like the overflowing waters of a river, because of this very name, “God with us”’ (ver. y
Then, in the next chapter, more still was told about the One who was to come, and seven names were given Him in one verse
(Isa. ix. i): Even Isaiah himself must have wondered what it meant (1 Pet. i. ) when God’s
Spirit made him write that the coming Messiah should be ‘fa Child” and yet “the Mighty God.” And though we do not wonder in the same way, because we know how it came true, yet I think we shall always wonder more and more at this mystery of godliness (1 Tim. iii. ). How we ought to thank God for thinking of this wonderful way of saving and helping and meeting the children, by being God with us as a little child! And how reverently we ought to speak of the Lord Jesus when we recollect that He is “God our Saviour” Ci hee Aan Stil. ). And oh, how sure we may be that He must be able to save, and that we may trust Him to save us! Think of this next time you sing, “My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in Gad my Saviour” (Lifke i. ).