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Saved to Serve
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Millions upon millions of human beings, in sickness and igno-
rance and sin, have never so much as heard of Christ’s love for them.
If our condition and theirs were to be reversed, what would we want
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them to do for us? All this, so far as lies in our power, we are to do
for them. Christ’s rule of life by which every one of us must 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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By all that has given us advantage over another—be it education
and refinement, nobility of character, Christian training, or religious
experience—we are in debt to those less favored, and so far as lies
in our power we are to minister to them. If we are strong, we are to
hold up the hands of the weak.
Angels of glory who live in the presence of the Father in heaven
delight to minister to His little ones. Angels are ever present where
they are most needed—with those who have the hardest battles with
self to fight, and whose surroundings are the most discouraging.
Weak and trembling souls who have many objectionable traits of
character are their special charge. That which selfish hearts would
regard as humiliating service—to minister to those who are wretched
and in every way inferior in character—is the work of the pure,
sinless beings from the courts above.
Walking and Working With Jesus
Jesus did not consider heaven a place to be desired while we
were lost. He left the heavenly courts for a life of reproach and
insult and a death of shame. He who was rich in heaven’s priceless
treasure became poor, that through His poverty we might be rich.
We are to follow in the path that He walked.
Everyone who becomes a child of God should henceforth look
upon himself or herself as a link in the chain let down to save the
world, one with Christ in His plan of mercy, going forth with Him
to seek and save the lost.
Many feel that it would be a great privilege to visit the scenes
of Christ’s life on earth, to walk where He walked, to look upon the
lake and its shorelines where He loved to teach, and the hills and
valleys on which His eyes so often rested. But we need not go to
Nazareth, to Capernaum, or to Bethany to walk in the steps of Jesus.