AT 25:45{AT 25:45{Our Lord Jesus Christ has given us opportunities of showing whether we love Him or not. He tells us that what we try to do for any one who is poor, or hungry, or sick, or a lonely stranger, is just the same as doing it to Him. And when the King says, "Come, ye blessed," He remembers these little things, and says, "Ye have done it unto Me." But He tells us that if we do nothing for them, it is just the same as if He were standing there and we would do nothing for Him. And He will say, "Ye did it not to Me." One of these two words will be spoken to you in that coming day. It seems to me so very kind of the Lord Jesus to have told us this. For He knew that those who really love Him would want to do something for Him, and what could we do for the King of Glory in His glorious Heaven? So it was wonderfully thoughtful of Him to give to us His poor people to care for, and to say, if we have only been kind to a sick old lady or hungry little child, "Ye have done it unto Me!”
Dear is the work He gives in many a varied way,
Little enough in itself, yet something for every day—
Something by pen for the distant, by hand or voice for the near,
Whether to soothe or teach, whether to aid or cheer.