“Thou shalt call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins" (Matt. 1:21). MAT 1:21
DEAR FRIENDS, —Through sin man had departed from God, and come under His righteous sentence of death.
“Death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned" (Rom. 5:12). ROM 5:12 You and I were doomed to die, and were unable to save ourselves, being "without strength" (Rom. 5:6). ROM 5:6But because God is Love as well as Light, He sent His Son to save us; and at His birth an angel brought good tidings—which is what the word gospel means—" To all people...
For unto you is born...
A SAVIOUR,
which is Christ the Lord " (Luke 2:10-11). LUK 2:10-11
Good tidings indeed this is to us, when we have been led to feel our need as lost, helpless sinners. He came to save us from our sins.
But at what a cost to Himself! Since death was the penalty due to sinners, He must endure death in our stead. “God commendeth His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Rom. 5:8). ROM 5:8 Our natural thought is to do something good to make God love us, but He loved us while we were yet sinners, and ungodly (v. 6), and enemies (v. 10); and Jesus died for us guilty sinners.
Thank God. He sent His “Son to be
THE SAVIOUR
of the world " (1 John 4:14). 1JO 4:14Jesus is The Saviour for all, and the only Saviour: “For there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). ACT 4:12
I was visiting a young man, helpless from paralysis, and to comfort him quoted Psa. 23:1: PSA 23:1 “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want," He looked up and a happy smile lit up his face as he repeated, “MY Shepherd." Mary, too, could say, “My spirit hath rejoiced in God
MY SAVIOUR”
(Luke 1:47). LUK 1:47
When by faith we trust in Jesus we, too, can each one say for himself or herself, “My Saviour," and He is the joy of our hearts for time and for eternity. It is a great thing to know that there is a Saviour, Jesus, for lost sinners. It is well to be assured from God's Word that He is the Saviour, and there is no Saviour beside Him; hut this will not avail for our salvation, unless by faith we can add, Jesus is my Saviour.
That you may thus know Him is the earnest desire of one who, through grace, can say to Him, "My Saviour.”
“Now I can call the Saviour mine,
Though all unworthy still;
I'm sheltered by His precious blood,
Beyond the reach of ill.”
W. H. S. F.