Christ, Thoughts of – Charles Spurgeon

DO you think of Christ, desiring still nearer access and a clearer view of him, sighing out with sacred love-sickness, saying, “O that I were with him where he is, or that he were with me where I am”? Do you think of him with admiration, wondering at the Altogether Lovely One. Do you think of him with an ardent wish to be conformed to his image, saying, “Gracious Savior, make me like yourself”? Do you think of him with practical love, so that you help his cause, support his poor people, proclaim his truth, aid his church, and pity sinners for whom he shed his blood? Do you so think of Christ as to speak well of him, and commend him to the love of mankind? Do thoughts of Jesus keep you back from sin, and incite you to continue in the paths of holiness for his name’s sake? Do you so think of Christ that you pray for him, that you give to him, that you work for him? What think you of Christ?” Is he worthy of your actual, practical, diligent service, or is it to be all talk and idle chat and broken resolutions and vain professions? “What think you of Christ?”