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Perhaps in thinking of what God does for the world, we are too apt to
overlook the human agents and instruments, and to think of him touching
lives directly and immediately. A friend of ours is in sorrow, and,
going to our knees, we pray God to give him comfort. But may it not be
that he would send the comfort through our own heart and lips? One we
love is not doing well, is drifting away from a true life, is in danger
of being lost. In anguish of heart we cry to God, beseeching him to
lay his hand on the imperilled life, and rescue it. But may it not be
that ours is the hand that must be stretched out in love, and laid, in
Christ's name, on the life that is in danger?
Certain it is, at least, that each one of us who knows the love of
Christ is ordained to be as Christ to others; that is, to be the
messenger to carry to them the gift of Christ's grace and help, and to
show to them the spirit of Christ, the patience, gentleness,
thoughtfulness, love, and yearning of Christ. We are taught to say,
"Christ liveth in me." If this be true, Christ would love others
through us, and our touch must be to others as the very touch of Christ
himself. Every Christian ought to be, in his human measure, a new
incarnation of the Christ, so that people shall say: "He interprets
Christ to me. He comforts me in my sorrow as Christ himself would do
if he were to come and sit down beside me.
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