Self-occupation is a dreary study, a life-long pursuit to bring a clean thing out of an unclean. I am evil, cries the student of self, and repeats himself continually. He is ever before the mirror and the more he sees of himself, the longer grows his countenance. Or again, he has picked up the broken pieces of the once-beautiful ornament and, having carefully placed them under a glass shade, is mourning over the fragments, and ever occupied with that which cannot be mended. Wiser far to cast away as worthless that which cannot be restored; and happier far to turn away from the mirror to behold the face of Jesus Christ. True Christian wisdom lies in occupation with Christ, in studying the glorified Jesus, and in believing God’s word, “In Christ.”