To Learn Christ

Prodigal:  I am waiting for church.

Me:  I think we have enough time to share about Christ.

Prodigal:  I think you do have enough time.

This is from Stepping Heavenward by Elizabeth Prentiss

I have just been to see Mrs. Campbell.  In answer to my routine lamentations, she took up a book, and read me…”Wish always, and pray, that the will of God may be wholly fulfilled in you.”

I said despondently, “If peace can only be found at the end of such hard roads, I am sure I shall always be miserable.”

“Are you miserable now?”  she asked.

“Yes, just now I am.   I am in a disheartened mood, weary of going round and round in circles, committing the same sins, uttering the same confessions, and making no advance.”

“My dear,” she said after a time, “have you a perfectly distinct, settled view of what Christ is to the human soul?”

“I do  not know.  I understand, of course, more or less perfectly that my salvation depends on Him alone;  it is His gift.”

“But do you see with equal clearness that your sanctification must be as fully His gift as your salvation is?”

“No,” I said after a little thought.  “I have had a feeling that He has done His part and now I must do mine.”

“My dear,” she said with much tenderness and feeling, “then the first thing you have to do is to learn Christ.”

“But how?”

“On your knees, my child, on your knees.”

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.

Hebrews 12:2

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodgialpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

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