C.H. Spurgeon – Words of Warning for Daily Living

By brucesbiblepage on July 7, 2024

"Christ the Son of Man"
Son of man — whenever He said that word He seemed to put a
halo round the head of Adam's children. Yet there is perhaps a more lovely thought
still. Jesus Christ called Himself the Son of man, because He loved to be a man. It
was a great stoop for Him to come from heaven and to be incarnate. It was a mighty
stoop of condescension when He left the harps of angels and the songs of cherubims
to mingle with the vulgar herd of His own creatures. But condescension though it
was, He loved it. You will remember that when He became incarnate He did not
become so in the dark. When He brings forth the only begotten into the world, He
says, "Let all the angels of God worship Him." It was told in heaven; it was not done
as a dark secret which Jesus Christ would do in the night that none might know it; but
all the angels of God were brought to witness the advent of a Savior a span long,
sleeping upon a Virgin's breast, and lying in a manger. And ever afterwards, and
even now, he never blushed to confess that He was man; never looked back upon
His incarnation with the slightest regret; but always regarded it with a joyous
recollection, thinking Himself thrice happy that He had ever become the Son of man.
All hail, You blessed Jesus! we know how much You love our race; we can well
understand the greatness of Your mercy towards Your chosen ones, inasmuch as
You are evermore using the sweet name which acknowledges that they are bone of
Your bone and flesh of Your flesh, and You are one of them, a brother and a near
kinsman.