It is very rare to read a book in which literally every sentence of every page is devoted to the examination, promotion, and the exaltation of the exquisite personality and unrivaled character traits of Jesus Christ. That was precisely the goal of J. Oswald Sanders in his book "The Incomparable Christ." Published in 1952, Sanders book has since been used as an endearing devotional to increase one's view of the whole and complete Man that Jesus embodied as He lived among men 2,000 years ago. Sanders sifts through nearly every moment of Jesus' life, from His birth, to His teaching ministry, to the cross, to the resurrection and His ascension. Along the way Sanders points out the much to be heeded and sought after spiritual disciplines and divine idiosyncrasies that made Jesus the kind of Man He was; the only perfect Man to walk the face of the earth.
Concerning the perfection of Jesus' integrity, Sanders wrote, "The character of our Lord was wonderfully balanced, with neither excess nor deficiency... It stands out faultlessly perfect, so symmetrical in all its proportions that its strength and greatness are not immediately obvious to the casual observer. It has been said that in Jesus' character no strong points were obvious becomes there were no weak ones."
For me personally, the book "The Incomparable Christ" has immediately become one of my all-time favorite books. It is one which I believe every Christian ought to read, as this book will not only strengthen your faith in Jesus, but it will also deepen your attraction to Him as the only perfect Man to have existed amidst the fallen race of humanity. And as such a Man, Jesus is the archetype of whom all men ought to uphold as the quintessential model of what God initially created man to be.
"Jesus is the peerless teacher of the ages. True, He lived in an age when many outstanding teachers had exercised far-spreading influence, but in solitary splendor He towers above them all."
- J. Oswald Sanders, The Incomparable Christ, Chapter 16, pg 164
