2/5 Spurgeon Today

“The Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.” — 1 John 4:14

It is a sweet thought that Jesus Christ did not come forth without His
Father’s permission, authority, consent, and assistance. He was sent of the
Father, that He might be the Saviour of men. We are too apt to forget that,
while there are distinctions as to the persons in the Trinity, there are no
distinctions of honour. We too frequently ascribe the honour of our
salvation, or at least the depths of its benevolence, more to Jesus Christ
than we do the Father. This is a very great mistake. What if Jesus came?
Did not His Father send Him? If He spake wondrously, did not His Father
pour grace into His lips, that He might be an able minister of the new
covenant? He who knoweth the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost
as he should know them, never setteth one before another in his love; he
sees them at Bethlehem, at Gethsemane, and on Calvary, all equally
engaged in the work of salvation. O Christian, hast thou put thy
confidence in the Man Christ Jesus? Hast thou placed thy reliance solely
on Him? And art thou united with Him? Then believe that thou art united
unto the God of heaven. Since to the Man Christ Jesus thou art brother,
and holdest closest fellowship, thou art linked thereby with God the
Eternal, and “the Ancient of days” is thy Father and thy friend. Didst thou
ever consider the depth of love in the heart of Jehovah, when God the
Father equipped His Son for the great enterprise of mercy? If not, be this
thy day’s meditation. The Father sent Him! Contemplate that subject.
Think how Jesus works what the Father wills. In the wounds of the dying
Saviour see the love of the great I AM. Let every thought of Jesus be also
connected with the Eternal, ever-blessed God, for “It pleased the Lord to
bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief.”