“If any
man serve me, let him follow me;
and where I am, there shall also
my servant be:
if any man serve me, him will my Father honor”
John 12:26
FOLLOWING
LEADS TO HONOR
The highest service is
imitation. If I would be
Christ’s servant I must be His
follower. To do as Jesus did is
the surest way of bringing honor
to His name.
Let me mind this every day.
If I imitate Jesus I shall have
His company: if I am like Him I
shall be with Him. In due time
He will take me up to dwell with
Him above, if, meanwhile, I have
striven to follow Him here
below.
After His suffering our Lord
came to His throne, and even so,
after we have suffered a while
with Him here below, we also
shall arrive in glory. The issue
of our Lord’s life shall be the
issue of ours: if we are with
Him in His humiliation we shall
be with Him in His glory.
Come, my soul, pluck up
courage, and put down thy feet
in the blood-marked footprints
which thy Lord has left thee.
Let me not fail to note that the
Father will honor those who
follow His Son. If He sees me
true to Jesus He will put marks
of favor and honor upon me for
His Son’s sake. No honor can be
like this. Princes and emperors
bestow the mere shadows of
honor; the substance of glory
comes from the Father.
Wherefore, my soul, cling
thou to thy Lord Jesus more
closely than ever.
"Lord Dictated
Them"
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