For the next
couple of weeks we’ll be exploring what it is to be a follower of Christ. I was
recently reading a book by the famous preacher C H Spurgeon who over a hundred
years ago had this to say about following Christ. Brethren remember, to keep
close to Jesus Christ is right. It is in itself to keep close to integrity, for
the Lord Jesus never stepped out of the right path. He never asks any of his
followers to do anything which be a breach of the right, or which will make
them turn aside from uprightness. If we could put our feet down exactly where
his feet went down, even though we had to walk up to Calvary itself, it would
be our duty so to do, for his path was perfect rectitude, and in him was no
sin. We challenge heaven, with its omniscience, to detect a flaw in him. We
challenge hell, with its malice, to discover in him an aught that is amiss.
Lovers of the right and of the true, ask grace that you may be as he was. You
cannot be more eminent for virtue than he. You cannot serve your God better.
You cannot do better than keep close to every step that he has taken, and,
whether in life or in death, to follow him. It is right, then, because he
deserves it; it is right, again because in itself it is according to the
eternal rules of equity.
Some things never
change regardless of time. Jesus’ path was perfect may our desire be to follow
Him as closely as possible. Amen?
Be wise today and always –
follow the leader every day – Jesus!
