Manifest the Life of Christ in
Our Daily Living by J. R. Miller. True religion will
manifest itself in every phase of life. We sit down in the quiet
and read our Bible and get our lesson. We know it now, but we
have not as yet got it into our life, which is a thing we must
really do. Knowing that we should love our
enemies is not the ultimate thing. Actually loving our enemies is. Knowing that we should be patient
is not all. We are to practice the lesson
of patience until it has become a habit in our lives. Many know
the cardinal duties of Christian life, who yet have not learned
to live them. It is living them, however, that
is true religion. It must always be our aim to
live our religion, to get Christ's love of our heart wrought out
in a blessed ministry of kindness to others. Christ lives in us,
and it is ours to manifest the life of Christ in our daily living. we worship God on Sunday, in
order to gather strength and grace to live for God in the
six days that follow. It is evident, therefore, that
it is in the experiences of weekday life, far more than in the quiet
of the Sunday worship and the closet, that the real tests of
religion come. It is easy to ascend with our
mind to the commandments when we sit at the church enjoying
the services, but the ascent of the life itself can be obtained
only when we are out in the midst of temptation and duty, in contact
with others. There it is, alone, that we can
get the commandments wrought into ways of obedience and lines
of character. This is the final object of all
Christian teaching and worship, the transforming of our life
into the beauty of Christ.