All for Christ

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 15, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 36.

MANY decide for Christ, or think they do, to save themselves from punishment.

Many decide to follow Him because others do.

Some of these seem to make fair progress so long as they have company.

Such are going with the company instead of following Christ. They have never seen Him. They do not know Him. If they had, they would have started alone with Him whether any one else entered His service or not.

The only true decision for Christ Jesus is to give all to Him, for life or death, in poverty or riches, alone or with the multitude. It is to choose Him and Him alone in preference to all others and all things else beside. All we see and all we do not see must be forsaken. Says the apostle Paul: “But what things were gain to me [the things that he saw], those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things [seen or unseen] but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.”

Those who thus do will pursue the Christian race with Christ Jesus tho every other one turns away; for they will see in Christ more than all.

If we endure at all, it is because we have forsaken all for Him, and find His presence more precious than all else.