Go and Tell Jesus

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Stephen L Smith

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I have been tremendously encouraged by this little booklet by Winslow. Here is a portion to strengthen your faith:

It is faith that takes us to Jesus, and each fresh act of faith invigorates the divine principle. Faith, taking everything to Christ, and bringing back everything from Christ, by this process “groweth exceedingly.” Would you, my reader, have a faith powerful and stalwart, a faith that can slay the vaunting foe with a pebble and a sling, that demurs not at probabilities or impossibilities, because it leans upon Him with whom all things are possible, then you must have close transactions with Jesus, the “Author and Finisher of your faith.” The eaglet’s eye acquires strength of vision by gazing upon the sun — thus will your eye of faith be strengthened by “looking unto Jesus,” the “Sun of Righteousness,” in everything, and for everything. This habit of continuous application to the Lord Jesus will keep your heart as an evergreen planted by the water courses. The springs of its devotion will be kept pure and flowing; its affections fresh and ascending. My reader, true godliness has its empire in the heart. As a man’s heart, so is he. It is the moral mainspring of the soul — it regulates and governs the whole man. Oh! Watch with sleepless vigilance, with the most prayerful interest, the power of godliness in your heart. Let other religious professors, if they will, split hairs and solve abstract problems in theology. Let them speculate and refine, spending their energies and time in upraising but the scaffolding of the building — let the religion of others more consist in frivolous conversation, heartless levity, and unholy gossip about preachers and preaching, churches and societies — criticizing, fault-finding, condemning — with you, my Christian reader, let the one, grand, momentous, absorbing matter be — the religion of God in your soul — the making sure work for eternity. A religious professor may talk about ministers and churches, and parishes, and societies all his life, and be lost forever! Alas! Alas! It is with a mournful and solemn conviction of its truth we pen it — the religion of thousands, and of tens of thousands, has no more spiritual vitality than this! Why is it that in the professing Church of God there is so much vain conversation, idle, worldly gossip — so much evilspeaking and backbiting — so much censoriousness, suspicion, and condemning? Alas! It is because there exists so little real, Christlike godliness in those who profess it. Why is it that there is so little of the meekness and gentleness of Christ, of the spirit of charity, kindness, and forbearance — the taking the low place — the refusal to join others in hurling the missile, in uncovering the infirmity, and in inflaming the wound of a Christian brother or sister? Alas! It is because multitudes who, though professing His name, have no close, heart-transactions with Jesus. The more closely you deal with Christ, the more faithfully you will deal with yourself, and the less inclination and time you will have to deal with others. You will feel that to “save yourself,” were a matter sufficiently momentous to absorb every feeling, and thought, and moment; and that, having made sure of this, all the time and energy and sympathy you have to spare would find its appropriate work in endeavoring to “save others.” How is it, then, with you, my reader? Is that kingdom of Jesus, which “cometh not with observation,” which “consisteth not in meats and in drinks, but in righteousness, joy, and peace in the Holy Ghost,” dwelling, advancing, ascending in you? Are you a living soul — enshrining a living Christ — yielding in your life the fruit of a living faith, and cherishing a living hope of life eternal? What present transactions have you with Jesus — in your closet, by the wayside, in your families, and amid the din and conflict of your worldly calling? This will be the test and gauge of the reality and depth of your Christianity — your personal dealings with Christ.
https://www.chapellibrary.org/book/gat2/go-and-tell-Jesus-winslowoctavius
 
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