Power for Following

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Divine energy is needed to pursue the path marked out by Him who has gone before. The Apostle Paul, who knew Christ in glory, heard His voice speaking from glory, and had seen Him in glory, followed Him. He said, "I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Phil. 3:1414I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:14). The mark denoted the spot, as it were, whither he pressed; the prize was that for which he ran. He did not think of his eye or his feet. That on which his eye rested, and for which his feet pressed on, was everything to him; purpose of heart, earnestness, energy there must be, as well as self-abnegation every step of the course; diligence of soul and vigilance of heart too; but if Christ seen and known in glory does not form and maintain these in the heart, I know of no other motive or power. May we be kept hearing and beholding and following Christ, that the tastes suited to Him may be both formed and kept alive in us; and we ourselves, thus divinely strengthened to refuse everything of the first man because we are so satisfied with the second Man; and that we may show forth His virtues and glories and excellencies in a crooked and perverse generation among whom we shine as lights (heavenly bodies) in the world, holding forth the Word of life.