Excellent
“O Lord our Lord, how excellent is Thy name”
(Psalm 8:9).
“How excellent is Thy lovingkindness” (Psalm 36:7).
“Praise Him for His mighty acts: praise Him according to His excellent greatness” (Psalm 150:2).
What an excellent Saviour we have! We read of Abel, “By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain” (Hebrews 11:4). His sacrifice, which was the death of an innocent animal, was “more excellent” than that of his brother’s because it spoke to the heart of God of His Son and the perfect and supreme sacrifice He would make at Calvary many centuries later. Of that sacrifice we read, “Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour” (Ephesians 5:2).
As we consider this most excellent sacrifice today, how thankful our hearts should be that God is completely satisfied with that offering, and that we are accepted on the basis of it.
