December Book of the Month
“GOD WITH US: REFLECTIONS ON THE INCARNATION” BY CHARLES SPURGEON
Christmas is a time for beholding the glory of Christ. This collection of reflections by the great 19th century pastor and preacher, Charles Spurgeon, helps us do just that. In this book, Spurgeon unpacks the most wonderful and glorious of realities: that God has come to be with us. His meditations on the key scriptures of the Christmas story stir up the reader to sing and savor the glories of the Savior. Here’s an excerpt from the book:
“Glory to God in the highest.” The instructive lesson to be learned from this opening note of the angel’s song is that salvation is God’s highest glory. He is glorified in every dewdrop that twinkles in the morning sunshine. He is magnified in every wood flower that blossoms in the copse, although it is born to blush unseen of man, and may seem to waste its sweetness on the forest air. God is glorified in every bird that warbles on the trees, and in every lamb that skips in the meadows. Do not the fishes of the sea praise Him? From the tiny minnow to the huge leviathan, do not all creatures that swim in the waters laud and magnify His great Name? Do not all created things extol Him? Is there aught beneath the sky, save man, that doth not glorify God? Do not the stars exalt Him, when they flash His brightness in arrows of light piercing the midnight darkness? Do not the thunderpeals extol Him when they roll like drums in the march of the God of armies? Do not all things that He hath made, from the least even to the greatest, exalt Him?
But sing, sing, O universe, till thou hast exhausted thyself, yet thou canst not chant an anthem so sweet as the song of Incarnation!…There is more melody in Jesus in the manger than in the whole sublime oratorio of the Creation. There is more grandeur in the song that heralds the birth of the Babe in Bethlehem than there is in worlds on worlds rolling in silent grandeur around the throne of the Most High…The whole of God is glorified in Christ; and though some part of the Name of God is written in the material universe, it is best read in Him who was the Son of man, and also the Son of God.”
You can purchase a copy of the book here.