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Appeals for Truth and Loyalty
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meridian glory, when we turn away our eyes, the image of the sun
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will appear in everything upon which we look. Thus it is when we
behold Jesus; everything we look upon reflects His image, the Sun of
Righteousness. We cannot see anything else, or talk of anything else.
His image is imprinted upon the eye of the soul and affects every
portion of our daily life, softening and subduing our whole nature.
By beholding, we are conformed to the divine similitude, even the
likeness of Christ. To all with whom we associate we reflect the
bright and cheerful beams of His righteousness. We have become
transformed in character; for heart, soul, mind, are irradiated by the
reflection of Him who loved us and gave Himself for us. Here again
there is the realization of a personal, living influence dwelling in our
hearts by faith.
Abiding Presence of Jesus
When His words of instruction have been received, and have
taken possession of us, Jesus is to us an abiding presence, control-
ling our thoughts and ideas and actions. We are imbued with the
instruction of the greatest Teacher the world ever knew. A sense
of human accountability and of human influence gives character to
our views of life and of daily duties. Jesus Christ is everything to
us—the first, the last, the best in everything. Jesus Christ, His Spirit,
His character, colors everything; it is the warp and the woof, the very
texture of our entire being. The words of Christ are spirit and life.
We cannot, then, center our thoughts upon self; it is no more we that
live, but Christ that liveth in us, and He is the hope of glory. Self is
dead, but Christ is a living Saviour. Continuing to look unto Jesus,
we reflect His image to all around us. We cannot stop to consider
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our disappointments, or even to talk of them; for a more pleasant
picture attracts our sight—the precious love of Jesus. He dwells in
us by the word of truth.
What said Christ to the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well? “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.” “Whosoever drinketh of this water shall
thirst again: but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give
him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in