The Lord’s ultimate sovereignty is displayed through Christ’s incarnation, and Spurgeon helps us shift our focus to again gaze at the divine author of all things: the “great I AM.” Why is it important for us to behold God’s role here? Because it is the great proof of the Father’s love. It was the Father’s plan to send His Son among men to die in their stead, thus bringing both redemption and reconciliation to earth. 

With the Christmas season upon us, we are reminded of God’s plan of salvation for His people; a plan which centered on the incarnation, death, and resurrection of His only begotten Son. We naturally meditate upon the reality of Christ’s work on behalf of sinners; a truth which ought to be on the forefront of our minds. Inseparably tied to this truth, however, is the Father’s divine, sovereign ordination of this salvation plan.

In a sermon discussing Christ’s incarnation and birth, Spurgeon helps us understand God the Father’s sovereign role in sending the Son.

The Father sent him! Contemplate that subject. Let your soul get hold of it, and in every period of his life think that he suffered what the Father willed; that every step of his life was marked with the approval of the great I AM. Let every thought that you have of Jesus be also connected with the eternal, ever-blessed God; for “he,” saith Jehovah, “shall come forth unto me.” Who sent him, then? The answer is, his Father.[1]

The Lord’s ultimate sovereignty is displayed through Christ’s incarnation, and Spurgeon helps us shift our focus to again gaze at the divine author of all things: the “great I AM.” Why is it important for us to behold God’s role here? Because it is the great proof of the Father’s love. It was the Father’s plan to send His Son among men to die in their stead, thus bringing both redemption and reconciliation to earth.

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