The Most Acutely Sensitive Soul
The most acutely sensitive Soul which this earth ever knew was Jesus Christ, the Son of God. All the superfine faculties of the human soul lived in Him in all the perfection of keenness. The fulness of the Spirit keyed every sense to the most delicate impressions; for thus spake the prophet: 'And the Spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah. And His delight shall be in the fear of Jehovah.' The margin of the last clause is 'He shall be of quick understanding.' The Hebrew is of quick 'scent.' That is, His senses should be divinely quickened. Birds can see farther than men. Dogs can detect odor where men detect nothing. God created man originally superior to all animal creation; and in the restoration of man thru divine grace God would begin by quickening the soul faculties. All the world's needs found sympathy in the sensitive soul of Jesus; and how all the obloquy, scorn, opposition, persecution, He met must have hurt and pained Him! But all that touched Him personally He left with God, and knew that the souls who were thus engaged were hurting themselves more than they could injure Him.