The Price of Perfection
For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things,
in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation
perfect through sufferings. Heb. 2:10.
Christ's invitation to us all is a call to a life of peace and rest--a
life of liberty and love, and to a rich inheritance in the future immortal
life. . . . We need not be alarmed if this path of liberty is laid through
conflicts and sufferings. The liberty we shall enjoy will be the more
valuable because we made sacrifices to obtain it. The peace which passeth
knowledge will cost us battles with the powers of darkness, struggles severe
against selfishness and inward sins. . . .
We cannot appreciate our Redeemer in the highest sense until we can see
Him by the eye of faith reaching to the very depths of human wretchedness,
taking upon Himself the nature of man, the capacity to suffer, and by
suffering putting forth His divine power to save and lift sinners up to
companionship with Himself. O why have we so little sense of sin? Why so
little penitence? It is because we do not come nearer the cross of Christ.
Conscience becomes hardened through the deceitfulness of sin, because we
remain away from Christ. Consider the Captain of our salvation. He suffered
shame for us that we might not suffer everlasting shame and contempt. He
suffered on the cross, that mercy might be granted to fallen man. God's
justice is preserved, and guilty man is pardoned. Jesus dies that the sinner
might live. Shame is borne by the Son of the Highest for the sake of poor
sinners, that they might be ransomed and crowned with eternal glory. . . .
We must hide self in Jesus Christ, and let Him appear in our
conversation and character as the One altogether lovely, and the chief among
ten thousand. Our lives, our deportment, will testify how highly we prize
Christ and the salvation He has wrought out for us at such a cost to
Himself. While we look constantly to Him whom our sins have pierced and our
sorrows have burdened, we shall acquire strength to be like Him. We shall
bind ourselves in willing, happy, captivity to Jesus Christ.
>From That I May Know Him - Page 287
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