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Devotional: March 29th

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THE BLESSEDNESS AND HONOUR OF HELPING JESUS CHRIST

Fellow workers in Christ Jesus, - Romans 16:3

There are plenty of men in this day that scoff at Jesus, that mock Him, that deny His claims, that seek to cast Him down from His throne, that rebel against His dominion. It is an easy thing to be a disciple when all the crowd is crying " Hosanna! " It is a much harder thing to be a disciple when the crowd, or even when the influential cultivated opinion of a generation, is crying " Crucify Him ’. Crucify Him! " And some of you Christian men and women have to learn the lesson that if you are to be Christians you must be Christ’s companions when His back is at the wall as well as when men are exalting and honoring Him; that it is your business to confess Him when men deny Him, to stand by Him when men forsake Him, to avow Him when the avowal is likely to bring contempt upon us with some people; and thus, if not to bear our own cross, yet in a very real sense to bear His Cross after Him. Let us go forth unto Him without the camp, bearing His reproach; the tail end of His Cross, it is the lightest! He has got the heaviest on His own shoulders, but we have to ally ourselves with that suffering, and if it be, with that despised Christ, if we are to be His disciples.

There will be hostility, alienation, a comparative coolness, and absence of a full sense of sympathy in many people, with you, if you are a true Christian. There will be a share of contempt from the wise and the cultivated of this generation, as in all generations. The mud that is thrown after the Master will spatter your faces too, to some extent; and if we are walking with Him, we shall share to the extent of our communion with Him in the feelings with which many men regard Him. Stand to your colors! Do not be ashamed of the Master in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation.

Christ needs nothing, and yet He needs us. He needs nothing, and yet He needed that ass that was tethered at the place where two ways met, in order to ride into Jerusalem upon it. He does not need man’s help, and yet He does need it, and He asks for it. And though He bore Simon the Cyrenean’s sins "in His own body on the tree," He needed Simon the Cyrenean to help Him to bear the tree.

And He needs us to help Him to spread throughout the world the blessed consequences of that Cross and bitter Passion. So for us all there is granted the honour, and from us all there is required the sacrifice and the service of helping the suffering Saviour.

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