Every name is usually a pointer to the attributes and character or the personae of the bearer. Such is the case with our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as aptly described by the following scripture texts.

For a child is born to us, a son is given to us. The government will rest on his shoulders. And he will be called: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 NLT
 
The Lord of Heaven’s Armies is a wonderful teacher, and he gives the farmer great wisdom. Isaiah 28:29 NLT
 
They were completely amazed and said again and again, “Everything he does is wonderful. He even makes the deaf to hear and gives speech to those who cannot speak.” Mark 7:37 NLT

Wonderful is best appreciated in the dimensions of the victory He won over Satan and the demons, which are manifest in the tearing away from their grip and their oppression the created world; first man, and all of creation (Rom. 8:20-22 (NLT).

The song “You set me free, O, You set me free, You broke the band of prison from me; I am glory bound, King Jesus You’re my Saviour, glory to God, O, You set me free” is the ever living testimony of what deliverance He wrought in our lives.

He healed all manner of diseases:

Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them. And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ. Luke 4:40-41
 
But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities…And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy…(he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house. And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God. Luke 5:15,18,24,25
 
And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases; and they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed. And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all. Luke 6:17-19

H. Mackintosh wrote

*How truly delightful and refreshing to turn from this dismal picture to the only perfect Man who ever trod this earth! His path was indeed an isolated one, none more so. He had no sympathy with the scene around Him. “The world did not know Him.” “He came to His own [Israel], and His own did not receive Him.” “[He] looked for someone to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but [He] found none.”

Even His own beloved disciples failed to sympathize with or understand Him. They slept on the mount of transfiguration in the presence of His glory, and they slept in the Garden of Gethsemane in the presence of His agony. They roused Him out of His sleep with their unbelieving fears and were continually intruding upon Him with their ignorant questions and foolish notions. Yet He met all these in perfect grace, patience, and tenderness. He answered their questions; He corrected their notions; He hushed their fears; He solved their difficulties; He met their need; He made allowance for their infirmities; He gave them credit for devotedness in the moment of desertion; He looked at them through His own loving eyes and loved them, notwithstanding all: “Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.”
 
Let us seek to drink in our blessed Master’s spirit and walk in His footsteps. Then our isolation will be of the right kind, and though the path may be narrow, the heart will be large—C. H. Mackintosh

Shalom.


Pastor Afolabi Oladele