I need to spend more time...
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Subject: Fwd: Gems From My Reading - 4695
From: Norman Hiebert <njhiebert@sympatico.ca>
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"Be of good cheer."
"As Thou hast went me Me into the world, even so have I sent them into the world."
(John 17:18)
"As My Father hath sent Me, even so send I you."
(John 20:21)
Such is the Christian's Mission.
A Christian is not to shut himself within the walls of a monastery or convent. Christianity does not consist in joining a brotherhood or a sisterhood. Nothing of the kind. We are called to move up and down in the varied relations of life, and to act in our Divinely appointed spheres, to the glory of God. It is not a question of what we we are doing, but of how we do it. All depends upon the object which governs our heart.
If Christ be the commanding and absorbing object of the heart, all will be right; if He be not, nothing is right. Two persons may sit down at the same table to eat; the one eats to gratify his appetite, the other eats to the glory of God - eats simply to keep his body in proper working order as God's vessel, the temple of the Holy Spirit, the instrument for Christ's service.
So in everything. It is our sweet privilege to set the Lord always before us. He is our model. As He was sent into the world, so are we. What did He come to do? To glorify God. How did He live? By the Father.
"As the living Father hath sent Me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateth Me, even he shall live by Me" (John 6:57).
(The All-Sufficiency of Christ - C.H. Mackintosh)
N.J. Hiebert - 4695
