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How to Ignore Christ
But Christ sees it all, and He says, “It was I who was hungry
and thirsty. It was I who was a stranger. While you were feasting at
your abundant table, I was famishing in a shack. While you were
comfortable in your luxurious home, I had nowhere to lay My head.
While you enjoyed your pleasures, I languished in prison. When you
doled out the crusts of bread to the starving poor, when you gave
those flimsy garments to shield them from the biting frost, did you
remember that you were giving them to the Lord of glory? All the
days of your life I was near you in the person of these needy ones,
but you did not seek Me. You would not enter into fellowship with
Me. I do not know you.”
Many visit the scenes of Christ’s life on earth, to look on the lake
beside which He loved to teach and the hills and valleys on which
His eyes rested. But we do not need to go to Nazareth or Bethany
in order to walk in Jesus’ steps. We will find His footprints beside
the sickbed, in the ghettos of poverty, in every place where there are
human hearts in need of consolation.
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Everyone may find something to do. Millions of people caught
in ignorance and sin have never even heard of Christ’s love for them.
Christ’s rule of life, by which every one of us will stand or fall in
the judgment, is, “whatever you want men to do to you, do also to
them.”
Matthew 7:12
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The Savior gave His life to establish a church capable of caring
for tempted men and women. Believers may be poor, uneducated,
and unknown, yet in Christ they may do a work in the neighborhood
and even in “the regions beyond” whose results will reach to eternity.
Because they neglect this work, many young disciples never advance
beyond the mere alphabet of Christian experience. They could have
directed the restless energy that is so often a source of danger into
streams of blessing. They would forget self in earnest work to do
others good. Those who minister to others will not be longing for
exciting amusements or for some change in their lives. The great
topic of interest will be how to save those who are ready to perish.
To make us children of one family, the King of glory became
one with us. “Love one another as I have loved you.”
John 15:12
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When we love the world as He has loved it, then for us His mission