Vision of Christ, Inspiring to Service – Charles Spurgeon

A VISION of the Crucified, my brethren, is that which we want When we are toiling in his harvest-field, and sit down to wipe the sweat from our brow, we grow very weary; the harvest is plenteous, but the laborers are few: we feel that the edge of our sickle is growing very, very blunt, and we wish we could lie down under the spreading tree from the heat of the sun, and toil no longer; but just then we see the Crucified One coming forward with his mighty sickle; and as we mark the blood-drops streaming from his brow, and see the nail-print in the hand with which he grasps the sickle; when we see how he toils, and how he labors, with what an awful love he sacrifices himself, how he has stripped off his very garments, and, in all the nakedness of self-denial, gives himself up that he may save others while himself he cannot save; then we pluck up heart again, and take our sickle in the hand which once did hang down, saying, “Jesus, I will never be weary, for you were not weary; and when I shall be faint awhile, I will see you, whose meat and drink it was to do your Father’s will, and I will make it my meat and my drink to serve you.” Surely you cannot do God’s work so well as when you have Jesus Christ with you.