I am going to be like Christ in glory. This wonderful truth should produce in me the desire that I must be as much like Him now as. I can be.
The position that each Christian holds before man is that of an epistle of Christ. We are set for this, that the life of Christ should be manifested in us. Christ has settled the question with God. He appears in the presence of God for us, and we are in the presence of the world for Him. "At that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you." If I know He is in me, I am to manifest the life of Christ in everything. If He has loved me with unutterable love which passes knowledge, I feel hound in heart to Him. My business is to glorify Hint in everything I do. "Bought with a price" that is settled; if bought, I am His. But I press upon you that earnestness of heart which cleaves to Him, especially in these last and evil days, when we wait for the Son from heaven. Oh! if Christians were more thoroughly Christians, the world would understand what it was all about. There is a great deal of profession and talk, but do you think if a heathen came here to learn what Christianity meant he would find it out?
The Lord give you to have such a sense of the love of Christ that, as bought with a price, the only object of your souls may be to live by Christ and to live for Christ. The more of Christ you manifest down here, as an epistle "known and read of all men," the more you will draw other sin-weary souls to Him.
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