The power of a higher, purer, nobler life is our great need.
The world is watching to see what fruit is borne by professed Christians. It
has a right to look for self-denial and self-sacrifice from those who believe
advanced truth. It is watching, ready to criticize with keenness and severity
our words and acts. Everyone who acts a part in the work of God is weighed in
the scales of human discernment. Impressions favorable or unfavorable to Bible
religion are constantly being made on the minds of all with whom we have to
do.
And God and the
angels are watching. God desires His people to show by their lives the
advantage of Christianity over worldliness, to show that they are working on a
high, holy plane. He longs to see them showing that the truth they have
received has made them children of the heavenly King. He longs to make them
channels through which He can pour His boundless love and mercy.
Christ is waiting
with longing desire for the manifestation of Himself in His church. When the
character of the Saviour shall be perfectly reproduced in His people, then He
will come to claim His own. It is the privilege of every Christian, not only to
look for, but to hasten, the coming of our Lord. Were all who profess His name
bearing fruit to His glory, how quickly the whole world would be sown with the
seed of the gospel! Quickly the last great harvest would be ripened, and Christ
would come. CT pg. 324
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