CHRIST did not come to be occupied with the ten thousand vanities filling the hearts and minds of poor sinners down here; but He came from His Father’s bosom, to tell out all His Father’s love, that He might occupy their hearts with the joys of the Father’s presence. “If thou knewest” was ever on His lips. It is in this spirit alone that we can rightly pass through the world; our own hearts pre-occupied with the sense of His loveless and grace, and so unattracted by all that glitters here, longing to attract away from these things to Him who alone is lovely.
It was in this spirit that Paul went to Corinth. Jews required a sign, and Greeks sought wisdom, but he brought neither the one nor the other; he preached Christ crucified. He well knew that Christ crucified was to the Jews a scandal, and to the Greeks foolishness; but he also knew that to the called the same Christ, was the power of God and the wisdom of God. Therefore he determined to know nothing among them save.Te.ms Christ and Him (as) crucified.