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Devotional: May 31st

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’’ I count all things but loss for the excellency of the know ledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord." - Philippians 3:8.

Excellency is to be estimated by adaptation. Viewed in himself, Christ is without a peer. With all beings before him, the Father chose Christ, saying, " This is my elect, in whom my soul delighteth." When God has pronounced, what need remains of deliberation? But happily for us, there is in Christ not only infinite excellency, but adaptation to our state and requirements.

As he is excellent, so is the knowledge of him excellent; for we possess him by knowing him. There is nothing in the world that may not cheerfully be sacrificed in the effort to know Christ. If there be reason to believe that we shall enjoy better opportunities of knowing Christ in an inferior position, it is most becoming to descend into it. If wealth blocks up the avenues of our spiritual apprehension of Christ, it must be removed.

We cannot know Christ, if we are without a will to obey him. Since the path of duty is the path of this golden knowledge, let us go forward in it with delight. The peasant has his few articles of furniture, some paltry pictures, a little patch of ground, plain apparel, and perhaps thinks much of these possessions; but make him master of a palace, with galleries and treasuries, and how lightly will he then esteem his former goods. Thus with the Christian.

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