Beloved, the life of Jesus upon earth was a life of the
deepest humility. It was this gave His life its worth and beauty in God's
sight. And then His death--possibly you haven't thought of it much in this
connection--but His death was an exhibition of unparalleled humility. "He
humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the
cross." My Lord Christ took a low place all the time of His walk upon
earth; He took a very low place when He began to wash the disciples' feet;
but when He went to Calvary, He took the lowest place there was to be found
in the universe of God, the very lowest, and He let sin, and the curse of
sin, and the wrath of God, cover Him. He took the place of a guilty sinner,
that He might bear our load, that He might serve us in saving us from our
wretchedness, that He might by His precious blood win deliverance for us,
that He might by that blood wash us from our stain and our guilt.
We are in danger of thinking about Christ, as God, as man, as the
atonement, as the Saviour, and as exalted upon the throne, and we form an
image of Christ, while the real Christ, that which is the very heart of His
character, remains unknown.
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