ALL and ONLY, who and what, all HUMANS DESIRE...

ALL and ONLY, who, and what, all HUMANS DESIRE....
Haggai 2:7 Desire of all Nations. Who's this? Jesus. Spurgeon excerpt: "Brethren, I may add, Christ is certainly the desire of all nations in this respect, that we desire him for all nations. Oh! that the world were encompassed in his gospel! Would God the sacred fire would run along the ground, that the little handful of corn on the top of the mountains would soon make its fruit to shake like Lebanon. Oh! when will it come, when will it come that all the nations shall know him? Let us pray for it: let us labour for it.

And one other meaning I may give to this: he is the desirable one of all nations, bringing back the former translation of this text. He is the choice one of all nations. He is the chief among ten thousand, and the altogether lovely. He, whom we love, is such an one that he can never be matched by another, his rival could not be found amongst the sons of men. There is none like him; there is none like him amongst the angels of light; there is none that can stand in comparison with him. The desire, the one that ought to be desired, the most desirable of all the nations, is Jesus Christ, and it is the glory of the Christian Church, which is the second temple that Christ is in her, her head, her Lord. It is never her glory that she condescends to make an iniquitous union with the State. It is her glory that Christ is her sole King; it is her glory that he is her sole Prophet, and that he is her sole Priest, and that he then gives to all his people to be kings and priests with him, himself the centre and source of all their glory and their power."

I love this name for Jesus, the Desire of all Nations. It means so many things, is prophecy of His coming, is letting us know, all humans, want and need the LORD! We are designed this way, with a Desire, only Jesus can fill. 

May our prayers ramp up, include the whole world, recognizing human's everywhere, in every century, desire, only all God can do, be, give and fulfill. We want His love, saving grace, wisdom, knowledge, peace, joy, all and only who God is. Grace and Peace to you, in the matchless name of Jesus. Amen.