CHRIST'S INTERESTS

CHRIST’S INTERESTS

The great question always is, Is the Lord exclusively prominent? Is He the magnet which controls the compass? When He is, everything will be in its right place.

The sure mark that you have been enjoying Christ in glory is that then He exclusively engrossed your attention, and as you are here for Him, everything that concerns Him claims your paramount attention. I could not say whether it were right to be at C-, but being at C- I should ally myself with everything of the Lord’s there; though I should avoid association with any whom I could not influence by word or deed in the line of His interests. However feeble the meeting may be I should not turn away from it, though I should from those in it that tended to make it so.

Light offers itself wherever it will be accepted. Darkness dislikes light. The light both excludes and contributes. From the Lord, for the Lord. From the glory, eating of the corn of the land, you come down here to care for and help on everything that is of Himself in this scene of darkness and shadow of death.

The more I seek Christ’s interests the more He invigorates me. We too constantly confine our desires to His care for us, and do not expand into caring to be here for His pleasure.