Are the excellencies of Christ seen and savored by people week in and

week out in worship in a way that guards every one of these excellencies of
Christ from disproportion by keeping it in relation to its counter-
excellency? I know that sounds complicated. It’s not. Here’s what I mean.

 We must sing of the excellence of his glory, but mingled

with his humility.
 We must sing of his transcendence, and mingled with his
condescension.
 We admire him for his uncompromising justice, but even
more because he’s tempered with mercy.
 We admire him for his majesty, but even more because it’s
a majesty in meekness — lion and lamb.
 We admire him because of his equality with God, but even
more because he’s God’s equal yet he has a reverence for God.
 We admire him because of how worthy he is of all good,
but even more because of how patient he was to suffer all evil.
 We sing of him because of his sovereign dominion over the
world, but even more because of his dominion clothed in a spirit
of obedience and submission.
 We love the way he stumped the proud Pharisees and
scribes with his wisdom, and we love it even more because he
could be so simple that children wanted to come near him and
spend time with him.
 We admire him because he could still the storm with a
word, and yet he refused to use his power to come down from
the cross. PIPER