For you, Stephen Ting, Christ
is all. The love of God to guilty man
is a love that surpasses knowledge. Its riches are unsearchable,
and its extent past finding out. For you, the heavens have bowed
their glory. For you, the Lord of life has
descended to the earth. For you, the Son of God became
the Son of Man, and the possessor of a heavenly throne has been
made the victim of an earthly cross. For you, this mysterious
traveler upon the earth was humbled and bruised, has agonized and
died. For you, purity was tempted,
innocence suffers, kindness is despised, majesty is crushed,
and all the dignity and glory of Emmanuel is covered with shame. Jesus did all this just to redeem
you from inevitable condemnation, to save your perishing soul from
an everlasting punishment in hell.