We need to get this matter of consecration down out of cloud-land into
the region of actual, common daily living. We sing about it and pray
for it and talk of it in our religious meetings, ofttimes in glowing
mood, as if it were some exalted state with which earth's life of toil,
struggle, and care had nothing whatever to do. But the consecration
suggested by the living sacrifice is one that walks on the earth, that
meets life's actual duties, struggles, temptations, and sorrows, and
that falters not in obedience, fidelity, or submission, but follows
Christ with love and joy wherever he leads. No other consecration
pleases God.
CHAPTER III.
CHRIST'S INTEREST IN OUR COMMON LIFE.
"So still, dear Lord, in every place
Thou standest by the toiling folk
With love and pity in thy face,
And givest of thy help and grace
To those who meekly bear the yoke."
One of our Lord's after-resurrection appearances vividly pictures his
loving interest in our common toil. While waiting for him to come to
Galilee, the disciples had gone back for a time to their old work of
fishing. They were poor men, and this was probably necessary in order
to provide for their own subsistence. Thus fishing was the duty that
lay nearest. Yet it must have been dreary work for them after the
exalted privileges they had enjoyed so long. Think what the last three
years had been to these men.
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