If I love and prize Christ, such will be my feeling toward Christians, even as I shall want myself and all Christians to feel that Christ is the only thing worth our thoughts, affections, labor and life. There is continual danger of the Christian's sinking into thoughts of natural qualities-of those things that make men attractive. The point of faith is to rise above all this.
No man ever walks inconsistently while his eye is on Christ. And it is not merely the sense of his own weakness, but the consciousness that the old man is judged and gone from before God. What a blessed standing is the Christian's! [14]