daily devotional

“Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: 
therefore God hath blessed thee for ever,” Psalm 45:2.   
 
 
We read in Revelation 19:16 that His name is “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS,” 
yet in His condescension He draws the chiefest of sinners to Himself to enter 
into a marriage union with them. He looks on you and me to draw us to Him and 
enter into a marriage union with us.
 
When Christ is lifted up before the eyes of faith as our Heavenly  Bridegroom, 
then our hearts can exclaim with the psalmist in our text: “Thou art fairer than 
the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed 
thee for ever.” Now we see something in Him that is far more precious than 
anything in this life. Nothing in this life compares.
 
This blessed Mediator is not only “KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS,” but he has 
become man that He not only be our Lord, but our brother, as we read in Song of 
Solomon 8:1: “O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my 
mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be 
despised.”
 
He becomes one with us. He came down to our level so He can be our friend, so He 
can be our brother, so He can be our beloved.
 
God has so decreed that a Divine Person might become our friend in whom we may 
delight to find our fellowship. God has created us so we will have fellowship 
one with another, and He has sent Christ, the Godhead, to come down in our human 
nature to have that kind of personal fellowship with us.
 
Song of Solomon 5:16 says: “His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether 
lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.”
 
Christ has condescended to be one with us. He has condescended to take our human 
nature, that He can have this type of fellowship. This is the blessed fellowship 
spoken of by David in Psalm 122:7-9: “Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity 
within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace 
be within thee. Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.”
 
He is talking here of the blessed harmony and the blessed unity of brethren. 
Christ becomes one of the brethren. He becomes one with us.  
 
 
What would be more blessed to hear from the One who is “fairer than the children 
of men,” who has grace poured into His lips, than what He said in John 17:22-23: 
“And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, 
even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in 
one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as 
thou hast loved me.”
 
The Father has highly exalted our blessed Mediator and given him a name that is 
above every name as we see in Philippians 2:10-11: “That at the name of Jesus 
every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things 
under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, 
to the glory of God the Father.”  
 
 
As the Lord Jesus Christ has been exalted, this did not separate Him from His 
friends, but in His exaltation, He prays that His bride may be exalted with Him. 
I want you to see this in the gracious prayer the Lord Jesus Christ prayed to 
His Father in behalf of His church in John 17:24: “Father, I will that they 
also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my 
glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of 
the world.”  
 
 
If you get a glimpse into that, could you help but say with the psalmist: “Thou 
art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips.” He wants 
His church to be with Him where He is, in His exalted state.  Amen.
 
How lovely shines the Morning Star!
The nations see and hail afar
The Light in Judah shining.
Thou David’s Son of Jacob’s race,
My Bridegroom and my King of Grace,
For Thee my heart is pining.
Lowly, Holy, Great and glorious,
Thou victorious Prince of graces,
Filling all the heav’nly places.
Phipllip Nicolai, 1597