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2008

The Wonder of Jesus In the World

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10 Sep 2008

Robert Law once noted the wonder that Jesus must have experienced, as the God-Man, living in a created world, full of glory and splendor together with sin and corruption:

Though little is directly reported of it in the Gospels, this [i.e. this idea of the wonder of Jesus] also belonged to the perfection of our Lord Jesus. No one has ever lived in such a marvelous world as He, to whom “the glory of the grass and splendor of the flower” continually revealed the diviner miracle of a Heavenly Father’s munificent love and care. No one ever felt as He did the wonder of God–the infinite majesty and the infinite tenderness, the infinite purity and infinite forgiveness of God. No one has ever felt as He did the wonder of man, of the human soul with its heights and depths, its heroisms of love and loyalty, virtue and self-sacrifice, its marvels too of baseness and ingratitude–the amazingness of sin.1

[1] Robert Law The Emotions of Jesus (Stoke-On-Trent, Staffs: Tentmaker, 1995) p. 58.

About Post Author

Nick Batzig is the senior pastor of Church Creek PCA in Charleston, SC and an associate editor for Ligonier Ministries. Prior to serving at Church Creek, Nick was a pastor at Wayside PCA on Signal Mountain, TN. Formerly, Nick served as the founding pastor of New Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Richmond Hill, GA and as the editor of Reformation21 and the Christward Collective--sites of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. He frequently writes for Tabletalk Magazine, Reformation 21, He Reads Truth, and the Christward Collective. Nick was also the host of East of Eden, a podcast devoted to the Biblical and Systematic Theology of Jonathan Edwards. You can friend him on Facebook here and follow him on Twitter @nick_batzig

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