| The Joy of Service |
Chapter 11 |
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The same is true of friendship with Christ. If we are faithful as disciples, the Christ of each new day will be different from the Christ of the day before. Then at the end of the longest life we shall find that we have only begun to know Christ.
This is true of our knowledge of the character of Christ. The mother tells her baby about Jesus, puts His name into its mind and heart earliest of all names. The little child soon learns something about Him, – that He is good and gentle, that He loves children, that He died for sinners, that He safely keeps all little ones who trust in Him. Sweet, indeed, is the child’s thought of Christ, but it is very little that the child knows of Him. Its conception of Him is dim and vague, only a child’s thought. But the study of the Master’s character goes on as the child becomes a man or a woman, ever eager to learn more and more of Him. Every day brings its surprises of new revealing.
Christ is an exhaustless study. Every line in the Gospels reveals some new glimpse of beauty in Him. Every sentence flashes some new revealing of loveliness in Him. In Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead, all that God is. To know Christ, therefore, is to know God. In Him is also full and complete manhood, all that God meant man to be, all the possibilities of humanity. What a boundless field of knowledge this is! All the Bible, all history, all science, all art, all nature, is full of the outshining of Christ. The great business of our life should be to know Him, to get acquainted with Him.
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