“I remember you” (Jeremiah 2:2)

Christ delights to meditate on His Church, and look upon her beauty. He has every right to do so. He “gave Himself for Her, that He might sanctify and cleanse Her with the washing of water by the Word, that He might present Her to Himself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish … a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the Church” (Ephesians 5:25-32).

Christ’s intimate concern for us transcends all time and space. He loved us so much, He provided a way for us to come to know Him, even before He created us. “He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will” (Ephesians 1:4-5).

Before His incarnation, he descended to Earth in the appearance of a man; on the plains of Mamre, by the brook of Jabbok, beneath the walls of Jericho, and in the fiery furnace of Babylon, Christ visited his saints (Genesis 18:1, Genesis 32:24, Joshua 5:13, Daniel 3:25).

He personally intervened because He delights in doing things for His saints, and at all times, we’re never absent from His heart. “Can a woman forget her nursing child, And not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands” (Isaiah 49:15-16).

We may often forget to meditate upon the perfections of our Lord, but He never ceases to meditate on us. Oh, Lord, help me to love Christ as He loves me.