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Seek Help from Jesus, Not Sinful Humans, March 20
Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.
Matthew 28:20
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Christ took humanity upon Himself. He laid aside His royal robe and kingly
crown, and stepped down from His high command in the heavenly courts. Clothing
His divinity with humanity, Christ encircled the race with His long human arm. He
stands at the head of humanity, not as a sinner but as a Saviour. It is because there is
no spot or stain of sin upon His divine soul that He can stand there as the sinner’s
surety. Because He is sinless He can take away our sins and place us on vantage
ground with God, if we will believe in Him and trust Him as the One that will be
our sanctification and righteousness....
He has promised that if you ask wisdom from Him, He will give it to you. But it
is not always essential for us to know all the whys and wherefores. We dishonor
God by striving to get someone who we think understands our case to help us. Has
He not given us His only begotten Son? Is not Christ close beside us, and will He
not give us the help we need? “Lo, I am with you alway,” He says,“even unto the
end of the world.” His Word repeats the promise over and over again....
It is no marvel to me that at the present time there is so much weakness where
there should be strength. The reason of this is that instead of drinking of the pure
water of Lebanon, we are seeking to quench our thirst from cisterns in the lowlands,
which contain not the water of life. We trust in human beings and are disappointed
and often misled....
We have done great dishonor to our Master in turning away from Christ to seek
wisdom from finite human beings. Shall we continue to cherish the sin of unbelief,
which doth so easily beset us, or shall we cast away this weight of unbelief, and go
to the Source of strength believing that we shall receive pity and compassion from
the One who knows our frame, who loves us so well that He gave His own life for
us, who bore in His own body the strokes which fell because of our transgression of
the law of God. All this He did that we might become prisoners of hope.
We are not polite to Christ. We do not recognize His presence. We do not realize
that He is to be our honored guest, that we are encircled by His long human arm,
while with His divine arm He grasps the throne of the Infinite. We forget that the
threshold of heaven is flooded with the glory proceeding from the throne of God,
that the light may fall directly on those who are seeking the help that Christ alone
can give. He said to the woman of Samaria, “If thou knewest the gift of God, and
who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and
he would have given thee living water” (
John 4:10
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Manuscript 144, 1901
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