Very Precious by Charles Spurgeon 1 Peter, Chapter 2, Verse 7 Yes, he is very precious to you who believe. Oh, that I had power to speak of his preciousness as it ought to be spoken of! None but an angelic speaker could tell out all of his worth. Jesus is essentially precious. He possesses an intrinsic worth. He must be precious, who is infinite God.

To every sinner who feels his sin, Jesus is precious. To every saved child of God, the Savior must forever be the fairest among the fair. To every heir of heaven who has experienced the sweetness of His saving grace, Jesus is the chief among ten thousand and the altogether lovely one. Had it not been for our Savior's sin-atoning death on the cross, we would forever have been cast into eternal hell.

Jesus is so precious that he cannot be bought. If a man should give all the substance of his house to purchase a saving interest in Jesus, it would be utterly despised. Rich men might gather together all of their precious things. Yes, India might be exhausted of its wealth, Peru drained of its silver, and California of its gold, but no part nor lot in Jesus could be bought. He gives himself away freely according to the riches of his grace, but he is utterly unpurchasable, for he is so precious that he cannot even be priced.

A whole world can never compare to him, any more than a single grain of dust could compare to the universe. Jesus is so precious because he is immeasurable. There is no measuring line which could measure him. He is infinite, and finite minds will never be able to comprehend his unutterable value. He is God's unspeakable gift. Heaven itself is nothing as compared with Him, and if a man had to wade chest-deep through a thousand hells to come to Jesus, it would be well worth the venture if at the last he might but say, My Beloved is Mine, and I am His. Jesus is so precious that He cannot be matched.

There is none like Him. The fairest of the fair are unlovely and deformed when compared with Him. If you were able to ransack time and space, you could find none that could equal Him. Miss Him as your Savior, and you have lost the only salvation possible. Gain Him, and you will need no other. Jesus is our wisdom, righteousness, holiness, and redemption. He is all your souls can need or desire. If heaven and earth were sold, you could not match Jesus in any market. If you search eternity and ransack immensity, you could never find one fit to be second to him.

He is so precious. Jesus is precious to us because he cannot be lost. All the precious things in this world are losable. The jewels may be stolen, the house may be broken into by the thief, and the treasure may be taken away. But Jesus is such a jewel that even Satan himself can never rob the soul of him when once it has him. Is not Jesus a priceless, precious jewel, since he cannot be lost? Though men have tried to focus the fires of persecution upon the Christian, they have never been able to separate him from the love of Jesus. And though earth and hell have stirred up their malice, and the furnace has been heated seven times hotter, and the child of God has been tossed into it, and apparently deserted to the fury of his enemies, yet never in a single case has the precious gem of Jesus in the heart been destroyed. See the preciousness of Jesus, the intrinsic preciousness, the essential preciousness. He cannot be bought, He cannot be priced, He cannot be matched, He cannot be lost, He cannot be separated from His redeemed people. Happy and rich beyond expression are those who can truly say, yes, He is very precious to us who believe.