Dear Christian reader, we would affectionately ask, Does the Person of Christ, or His work, most engage our attention? Do His personal excellences and worth so fill our souls, that we have been constrained to live unto Him?
We believe that no part of divine truth needs more pressing on the consciences of believers at this, time, than personal intercourse and occupation with Christ Himself; for then we shall surely be constrained to yield ourselves and all we have to Him.
There is such a disposition in the present day to hold the highest doctrines of divine grace with a low and worldly walk, that stripping ourselves for the honor and glory of our precious Saviour has, we fear, but little place, even to what it had some years ago.
Was it not the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord which enabled the apostle Paul to strip himself of all he had ever prized and gloried in? It is this surely that our Lord demands. Did He not knock at the Laodicean Church, and show Himself ready to sup with any who would open the door to Him?
Happy are they who are thus taken up with Christ Himself. Such become knit to Him, drawn out in love to Him, strip themselves for Him, and, looking up, say, “Come, Lord Jesus!”