THE RIGHT LINES OF WORK
THE RIGHT LINES OF WORK
I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me.
Very few of us have any understanding of the reason why Jesus Christ died. If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is a farce, there was no need for it. What the world needs is not “a little bit of love,” but a surgical operation.
When you are face to face with a soul in difficulty spiritually, remind yourself of Jesus Christ on the Cross. If that soul can get to God on any other line, then the Cross of Jesus Christ is unnecessary.
If you can help others by your sympathy or understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You have to keep your soul rightly related to God and pour out for others on His line, not pour out on the human line and ignore God. The great note to-day is amiable religiosity.
The one thing we have to do is to exhibit Jesus Christ crucified, to lift Him up all the time. Every doctrine that is not imbedded in the Cross of Jesus will lead astray. If the worker himself believes in Jesus Christ and is banking on the Reality of Redemption, the people he talks to must be concerned. The thing that remains and deepens is the worker’s simple relationship to Jesus Christ; his usefulness to God depends on that and that alone.
The calling of a New Testament worker is to uncover sin and to reveal Jesus Christ as Saviour, consequently he cannot be poetical, he must be sternly surgical. We are sent by God to lift up Jesus Christ, not to give wonderfully beautiful discourses. We have to probe straight down as deeply as God has probed us, to be keen in sensing the Scriptures which bring the truth straight home and to apply them fearlessly.
On this day...
- Giving money is only one way of showing charity; to give time & toil is far better & (for most of us) harder - 2011
- If my heart is right with God, every human being is my neighbor. - 2011
- Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory. - 2011
- As the stones in an arch help to strengthen one another, one Christian by imparting his experience, heats and quickens another - 2011
- Psalm 80:5 (NIV) - 2011
- John Newton - From Disgrace to Amazing Grace - 2011
- Never support an experience which does not have God as its Source and faith in God as its result. - 2011
- if you really believe that Christ’s pov- erty has made you rich, what are those furrows doing on your brow? - 2011
- We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man. - 2011
- He [the Holy Spirit] especially delights in the things of’ Christ, and focuses his sacred light upon the cross. - 2011
- What riches there must be in Him! - 2011
- What riches there must be in Him! - 2011
- Charles Spurgeon Room for the Savior - 2011
- Charles Spurgeon – Room for the Savior - 2011
- Servants Where You Least Expect Them - 2011
October 22, 2010