I have this Charles Spurgeon daily devotional as part of a Bible suite program on my computer, and it's chock full of savory morsels of spiritual insight. It must have been written about 120 years ago (which I can confirm after a quick check at wikipedia), and the olden language reflects that. Nonetheless, I begin to see why Spurgeon is held up as one of the "heroes of the faith," so to speak; not only is he eloquent and verbose, his thoughts just teem with passion and zeal for Christ, and a sincere desire to invoke the same in his readers.
Anyways, the reason I mention it is that the entry for today is all about how even though the Gospels present a clear and intriguing picture of Christ, Christ's followers themselves should display the most striking resemblance to Christ that anyone could ever see. This is obviously not a new idea, or even one that I haven't heard in the last month. However, it's when Spurgeon says "but they [should], when they once beheld us, exclaim, 'He has been with Jesus; he has been taught of him; he is like him; he has caught the very idea of the holy Man of Nazareth, and he works it out in his life and every day actions'" that he really gets me. Now, obviously for someone to exclaim that presupposes that they know all about the person and character of Christ already, which somewhat misses the point. But, I wonder if I could honestly say the same about myself. Do I "work out the very idea of the Holy Man of Nazareth in my life and every day actions?" I hope that that could be said of me. I hope that more and more my life reflects the One I claim to follow. That's my hope for THIS day, as a start.
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