p. 3 | Like Christ

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jun 29, 1905

Like Christ

THERE is only one standard for the Christian. He is to be like Christ. Here is the test of true religion. Our Lord’s own words settle this question: “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.” He has traveled the road before us, and we are to “follow his steps.” There is only one way in which this experience is possible, and this is clearly set before us by one who had sought perfection through his own works and had failed. He writes: “It is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.” Our Example gives himself to us as the fulfilment of the standard of perfection. The demand for his life in us is met by the gift of his life to us. He asks us to be like him, and makes it possible for us to meet the requirement, by promising to take up his abode in the heart of those who will open the door to him. Such is the outworking of divine love.