“We can best minister to him by helping them
Who dare not touch his hallowed garment’s hem;
Their lives are even as ours–one piece, on plan.
Him know we not, him shall we never know,
Till we behold him in the least of these
Who suffer or who sin. In sick souls he
Lies bound and sighing, asks our sympathies;
Their grateful eyes thy benison bestow,
Brother and Lord, – ‘Ye did it unto me.’”
If Christ were here, we say, we would do many things for him. The women who love him would gladly minister to him as did the women who followed him from Galilee. The men who are his friends would work to help him in any ways he might direct. The children who are trying to please him would run errands for him. We all say we would be delighted to serve him if only he would come again to our world and visit our homes. But we can do things for him just as really as if he were here again in human form.
One way of doing this is by obeying him. He is our Lord. Nothing pleases him so well as our obedience. It is told of a great philosopher that a friend called one day to see him, and was entertained by the philosopher’s little daughter till her father came in. The friend supposed that the child of so wise a man would be learning something very deep. So he asked her, “What is your father teaching you?” The little maid looked up into the face with her clear eyes and said, “Obedience.” That is the one great lesson our Lord is teaching us. He wants us to learn obedience. If we obey him always we shall always be doing things for him.
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