In a day like this in which the name of Christ is taken up very easily, it becomes a very solemn question whether we are truly following after Christ, whether the cross is before the mind as that which crucifies the world to us. A very solemn question is aimed at the very core of the inward life in those who are Christ's-Do they know the cross? or, Do they show forth the spirit of the world? Is it in their hearts? Take anyone passing through the street-the world is all about him, but is it in his heart, or is he living outside of it? It is a blessed thing to say, We have naught to think of or to seek but heavenly things. "Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God"; that is our profession.
If there is a place strange to me, it ought to be this place where my Lord was crucified. If this is not the case, then what else is it but a place where I am walking in the flesh?
"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." Col. 3:1-3.
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