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April 1, 2007
The Preeminent One
He is before all things, and in Him all things consist . . . that in all things He may have the preeminence. —Colossians 1:17-18

We can never overstate the greatness of Christ. As the preeminent person in history, He is worthy of our love and our praise.

In his classic book The Pursuit of God, A. W. Tozer paid tribute to Frederick Faber, the Englishman who penned the song “Faith of Our Fathers.” Tozer said, “His love for the person of Christ was so intense that it threatened to consume him; it burned within him . . . and flowed from his lips like molten gold. In one of his sermons he said, ‘Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle, and end of everything to us. . . . There is nothing good, nothing holy, nothing beautiful, nothing joyous which He is not to His servants. . . . No one need be downcast, for Jesus is the joy of heaven, and it is His joy to enter into sorrowful hearts. We can exaggerate about many things, but we can never exaggerate our obligation to Jesus, or the compassionate abundance of the love of Jesus to us. All our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we should never come to an end of the sweet things that might be said of Him.’”

On this Palm Sunday, let’s lift glad hosannas of praise to the King of kings. Jesus deserves our loving adoration. He is truly the preeminent One!  — Richard De Haan

When we submit to Jesus’ lordship,we’ll give Him our worship.

Preeminent is Christ the Lord,
He reigns o’er earth and sky and sea;
For mighty power is in His Word—
How great in majesty is He. —D. De Haan


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