The gospel is, as Wordsworth says of the skylark, ‘true to the kindred points of heaven and home.’ It always presents doctrine, and yet it is concerned about the smallest details of life and living.
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, p. 232 (from the sermon, The Christian and the Taking of Oaths).
Perhaps you could say, in other words, that the gospel is heavenly and homely, or timeless and timely. It soars and it condescends. It brings heaven to earth (the incarnation) and earth to heaven (the ascension and heavenly session at the right hand of God the Father).
And here’s the context of the line from Wordsworth:
Leave to the nightingale her shady wood;
A privacy of glorious light is thine,
Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood
Of harmony, with instinct more divine;
Type of the wise who soar, but never roam;
True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home!
You can read To a Skylark HERE.
