and Miserable Sinners Happy")
"Where your treasure is, there will
your heart be also." Matthew 6:21
Is not CHRIST our richest treasure?
Should HE not be ever in our minds,
and our minds ever on HIM?
O Christian, the riches of your
CHRIST are boundless
and bottomless!
You have in CHRIST,
UNSEARCHABLE RICHES--
an inexhaustible treasure
which never fails!
O then, imitate the miser!
O then, imitate the miser!
Let your mind dwell on your treasure.
Let your treasure be ever uppermost
in your mind.
Is the miser's mind ever upon, and
Is the miser's mind ever upon, and
ever going out after his treasure?
Just so, let your minds dwell on CHRIST!
Does the miser value himself
Does the miser value himself
by his treasure? Just so, must
you value yourself--
upon CHRIST!
Is he always poring over his
precious wealth? Just so, should you
pour over your precious CHRIST!
Does the miser love to inspect,
Does the miser love to inspect,
and count over his beloved gold?
O let your mind be ever inspecting
your beloved CHRIST in . . .
in HIS wondrous person;
in HIS amazing love, in laying
in HIS wondrous person;
in HIS amazing love, in laying
down HIS life for you, HIS enemy;
and in HIS glorious salvation
and in HIS glorious salvation
of you, an ungodly sinner!
Be constantly counting over . . .
all the great and precious promises
Be constantly counting over . . .
all the great and precious promises
which you have in HIM;
all the graces, blessings, and
all the graces, blessings, and
comforts which you have from HIM;
and the certain glory which you
and the certain glory which you
soon shall enjoy with HIM!
Is the miser careful to keep, and
Is the miser careful to keep, and
fearful of losing, any part of his
possession? So let it be between
CHRIST and your mind.
Hold HIM fast. Cleave to HIM.
Be careful to enjoy HIM always.
Be ever fearful of losing any blessing
or comfort HE has promised to bestow.
Thus esteem CHRIST--
Thus esteem CHRIST--
as your treasure!
Let all your hopes center in HIM,
and all your affections fix upon HIM!
Until time is swallowed up in eternity--
be receiving out of HIS inexhaustible fullness . . .
grace upon grace,
blessing upon blessing,
comfort upon comfort!
CHRIST is your treasure!
grace upon grace,
blessing upon blessing,
comfort upon comfort!
CHRIST is your treasure!
All other things are but dross
and dung compared to HIM!
Look down with a holy contempt,
upon all objects beneath your Beloved!"But whatever was to my profit I now
consider loss for the sake of CHRIST.
What is more, I consider everything
a loss compared to the surpassing
greatness of knowing CHRIST JESUS
my LORD, for whose sake I have lost
all things. I consider them rubbish, that
I may gain CHRIST!" Philippians 3:7-8
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