In a day like this in which the name of Christ is taken up very easily, it becomes a very solemn question whether we are truly following after Christ, whether the cross is before the mind as that which crucifies the world to us. A very solemn question is aimed at the very core of the inward life in those who are Christ's-Do they know the cross? or, Do they show forth the spirit of the world? Is it in their hearts? Take anyone passing through the street-the world is all about him, but is it in his heart, or is he living outside of it? It is a blessed thing to say, We have naught to think of or to seek but heavenly things. "Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God"; that is our profession.
If there is a place strange to me, it ought to be this place where my Lord was crucified. If this is not the case, then what else is it but a place where I am walking in the flesh?
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