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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
Follow me. And he arose and followed him. Matthew 9:9. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. John 10:27. Wherefore, I beseech you, be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. 1 Corinthians 4:16; 1 Corinthians 11:1.
How can he who has received grace, quickening grace from Christ, who is really awakened out of his sinful stupor, remain lying and not arise and follow Him who has awakened him and constantly cries, "Follow me! Follow me! How shall he who is truly awakened do otherwise than follow Christ? Can he be called a sheep of Christ if he does not look to Christ, hear His voice and follow Him? Jesus called Matthew and the other disciples; they arose and followed Him, not on foot only, but also in the spirit, in mind and in conduct. They observed how He thought and poke and acted, and conformed themselves to Him. Whom else would you follow than Christ? Whom else would you be like than Him? Would you follow Paul? Very well. Behold, he follows Christ. If Christ visibly associated with you, would you not then closely observe all His ways and manners? Would you not do everything according to what you saw Him do? Well then, observe Him thus in the spirit. Look into His book, into His life, and He shall show you how you are to think in regard to all things; how you are in all things to speak and act, in order to be perfectly like Him. If you do not follow Christ, you have never received any grace of Him, or else you have thrown away both the grace and Christ; you are not a sheep of Christ, but a child of the world and barred from the citizenship of Israel.
Show me what I have to do.
Every hour my strength renew;
Let me live a life of faith,
Let me die Thy people’s death.
