Spurgeon Saturday
Galatians 2:20
I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)
He gave himself for you in the everlasting covenant when he stood as your Surety and Representative. He gave himself for you through the long ages in which he waited to come to earth to redeem you. He gave himself for you when he assumed your nature, and became bone of your bone, and flesh of your flesh. He gave himself for you through a life of toil, and righteousness. He gave himself for you as your Substitute when he, “his own self, bare our sins in his own body on the tree.”
In the scourging, the shame, the spitting, the bloody sweat, the crucifixion, he gave himself for you. Take these blessed words of the apostle, and put them in your mouth, and let them lie there as wafers made with honey, till they melt into your very soul: “Who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
— C. H. Spurgeon
