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"What think ye of Christ?" - Matthew 22:42
"Though all the world my choice deride, Yet Jesus shall my portion be; For I am
pleased with none beside, The fairest of the fair is he"
The great test of your soul's health is, What think you of Christ? Is he to you
"fairer than the children of men"-"the chief among ten thousand"-the "altogether
lovely"? Wherever Christ is thus esteemed, all the faculties of the spiritual
man exercise themselves with energy. I will judge of your piety by this
barometer: does Christ stand high or low with you? If you have thought little of
Christ, if you have been content to live without his presence, if you have cared
little for his honour, if you have been neglectful of his laws, then I know that
your soul is sick-God grant that it may not be sick unto death! But if the first
thought of your spirit has been, how can I honour Jesus? If the daily desire of
your soul has been, "O that I knew where I might find him!" I tell you that you
may have a thousand infirmities, and even scarcely know whether you are a child
of God at all, and yet I am persuaded, beyond a doubt, that you are safe, since
Jesus is great in your esteem. I care not for thy rags, what thinkest thou of
his royal apparel? I care not for thy wounds, though they bleed in torrents,
what thinkest thou of his wounds? are they like glittering rubies in thine
esteem? I think none the less of thee, though thou liest like Lazarus on the
dunghill, and the dogs do lick thee-I judge thee not by thy poverty: what
thinkest thou of the King in his beauty? Has he a glorious high throne in thy
heart? Wouldest thou set him higher if thou couldest? Wouldest thou be willing
to die if thou couldest but add another trumpet to the strain which proclaims
his praise? Ah! then it is well with thee. Whatever thou mayest think of
thyself, if Christ be great to thee, thou shalt be with him ere long.
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