Do you ask what I mean? This, my friends; that as we cannot tell at
any moment what danger may be coming on us, so we cannot tell at any
moment what blessing from God may be coming on us. Those Jews, in
the day of their visitation, were blind, and they rejected Christ:
but recollect, that it was _Christ_ whom they rejected; that Christ
was there, not in anger, but in love; not to judge, but to save;
that the power of the Lord was present, not to destroy, but to heal
them. They would have none of him. True; but they might have had
him if they had chosen. They denied him; but he could not deny
himself. He was there to teach and to save, as he comes to teach
and to save every man.
Therefore, I say, be watchful. Believe that Christ is looking for
you always, and expect to meet him at any moment. I do not mean in
visible form, in vision or apparition. No. He comes, not by
observation, that a man may say, 'Lo, here; and lo, there;' but he
comes within you, to your hearts, with the still, small voice, which
softens a man and sobers him for a moment, and makes him yearn after
good, and say in his heart, 'Ah, that I were as when I was a child
upon my mother's knee.' Oh! listen to that softening, sobering
voice. Through very small things it may speak to you: but it is
Christ himself who speaks.
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