Christ Is Precious

Everything in Christ is precious. He is precious in His Person. Every feature of Him is lovely. He is precious in His offices, precious in His character, precious in His relations; yea, there is nothing in Him but what is precious; for He is altogether lovely, and the chiefest among ten thousand. And what would be alarming and distressing in others, becomes lovely in Him. His cross and reproaches for His sake, how trying and painful soever to flesh and blood, are on His account, not only endurable, but productive of holy joy. And Jesus is this in all that belongs to Him, and in all circumstances connected with Him, for as He is in Himself the first fair, the first beautiful; the first lovely; so He communicates loveliness to all that are united to Him; neither is there anything lovely or amiable but what is derived from Him.