Spurgeon Saturday
The Realness of Jesus
“The more real Jesus Christ is to us the more power there will be in our religion…
Now the force of the religion of Jesus, under God the Holy Spirit, it seems to me, is never fully brought out except when our faith greets the Lord Jesus Christ as a person, and holds to him as a personal leader and commander, loving him and devoting ourselves to him as an ever-living, ever-gracious Friend.
Let us feel his presence, though we cannot see his face, and remembering that there is such an one as Jesus of Nazareth, who became a babe in Bethlehem for us; who lived, and toiled, and suffered for us; then laid bare his breast to the spear, and gave up his life for us.
We grow strong when we thus think of him as our Saviour, when his thorn-crowned head rises before our mind’s eye, when we look into that face so marred with shame, and pain, and cruelty, till we are constrained to cry out, ‘Oh! my Saviour, I love thee…’”
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