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Morning and Evening

March 9, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"Yea, He is altogether lovely." — Song of Songs 5:16 · KJV

The surpassing beauty of Jesus is all-attracting; it is not so much to be admired as to be loved. He is more than pleasant and fair — He is lovely. Surely the people of God can fully justify the use of this golden word, for He is the object of their warmest love, a love founded on the intrinsic excellence of His person and the complete perfection of His charms. Look, O disciples of Jesus, to your Master's lips, and say, "Are they not most sweet?" Do not His words make your hearts burn within you as He talks with you by the way? You worshippers of Immanuel, look up to His head of fine gold, and tell me, are not His thoughts precious to you? Is not your adoration sweetened with affection as you humbly bow before that countenance which is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars? Is there not a charm in His every feature; is not His whole person so fragrant with the savor of His good ointments that therefore the virgins love Him? Is there one member of His glorious body that is not attractive, one part of His person that is not a fresh magnet to our souls, one office that is not a strong cord to bind our hearts? Our love is not fastened on His heart of love alone; it clings to His arm of power also, and there is no single part of Him on which it does not fix. We anoint His whole person with the sweet spikenard of our fervent love. His whole life we would imitate; His whole character we would copy. In every other being we see some lack; in Him there is all perfection. The best even of His favored saints have had stains on their garments and wrinkles on their brows; He is nothing but loveliness. All earthly suns have their spots; the fair world itself has its wilderness; we cannot love the whole of even the most lovely thing — but Christ Jesus is gold without alloy, light without darkness, glory without a cloud: "Yea, He is altogether lovely."