Then
shall we be fitted to be a blessing to every life which our life
touches. Our words then shall throb with love, and find their way to
the hearts of the weary and sorrowing. Then there will be a
sympathetic quality in our life which shall give a strange power of
helpfulness to whatever we do.
Says a thoughtful writer, speaking of influence: "Let a man press
nearer to Christ, and open his nature more widely to admit the energy
of Christ, and, whether he knows it or not,--it is better, perhaps, if
he does not know it,--he will certainly be growing in power for God
with men, and for men with God." We get power for Christ only as we
become filled with the very life of Christ.
Everywhere about us there are lives, cold, and cheerless, and dull,
which by the touch of our hand, in loving warmth, in Christ's name,
would be wondrously blessed and transformed. Some one tells of going
into a jeweller's store to look at certain gems. Among other stones he
was shown an opal. As it lay there, however, it appeared dull and
altogether lustreless. Then the jeweller took it in his hand and held
it for some moments, and again showed it to his customer. Now it
gleamed and flashed with all the glories of the rainbow. It needed the
touch and warmth of a human hand to bring out its iridescence. There
are human lives everywhere about us that are rich in their
possibilities of beauty and glory.
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