Trench: He might have reared a palace at a word

Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Meditation:
    Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
    —Philippians 2:5-7 (NIV)
Quotation:
He might have reared a palace at a word,
Who sometimes had not where to lay his head:
Time was, and He who nourished crowds with bread
Would not one meal unto Himself afford:
Twelve legions girded with angelic sword
Were at his beck, the scorned and buffeted:
He healed another’s scratch, his own side bled,
Side, feet, and hands, with cruel piercings gored.
Oh wonderful the wonders left undone!
And scarce less wonderful than those He wrought;
Oh self-restraint, passing all human thought,
To have all power, and be as having none;
Oh self-denying Love, which felt alone
For needs of others, never for its own!
    ... Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886), Poems, London: Macmillan, 1874, p. 142 (see the book)
    See also Phil. 2:5-7; Matt. 8:20; 26:53; John 20:25-27
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, empty me of all but Your Spirit. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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