THIS question is a very short one, is it not? But, oh, what an important one! For on the way you answer depends an eternity of joy, or woe.
You are not asked what you think of High Church, or Low Church, Baptists, Wesleyans, or others, but "What think ye of Christ?" Most will answer, "He was the Son of God" or, "He is the Savior of the world, Who came to suffer and to die for sinners, and all who believe on Him are saved.”
This is quite right. He is the Son of God. He did come to earth to suffer and to die for sinners, and all who believe in Him are saved; but this will be of no avail to you personally, unless you are of those who believe in Him from the soul. Can you say, He died for me? Can you look up and thank God that He sent His Son to save you, and that through His precious blood-shedding, death, and resurrection, you are saved by faith in Him?
Other questions fill your soul and occupy your mind, keep you awake at night and fill you with anxiety by day; but what of this all-important one? Do you think of it as much as your business, your food and your clothing? All such things must be attended to, we know; but they all perish in the using, while our immortal souls will live forever. Where?
No one can understand eternity, for it is the life of God. If you were to count every star in the sky, every grain of sand on the sea-shore, every leaf in the forests of the world, you would only as it were have entered upon the borders of eternity. Then where will you spend yours? It all hangs upon what you think of Christ. If the whole world were yours, what would it avail you when death knocks at your door?
Some of my readers, I dare say, have gone through serious illness. What did the usual concerns of life matter to you when you were feeling so weak you could not speak, nor scarcely think? Why, you know outside things were just nothing to you. So it will be when death comes, Buying and selling, cares and worries, will be like a dream when your soul realizes time is just over, and eternity beginning.
“What think ye of Christ?" Settle that question. Do not put off the answer. Jesus is such a loving Savior that He is waiting to receive you. When you have bowed at His feet and told Him all about yourself and your sins, He will lift you up and say, "Son, [or daughter] go in peace; thy sins are forgiven," and then for time or eternity all will be well.
But there is the other side, which I must put faithfully before you. if you do not settle this question now, you will never be able to do it, for by-and-by at the great white throne you will stand speechless, to be judged according to your works; and the loving Savior Who now pleads with you, will then be your Judge. "What think ye of Christ?”