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SEEK CHRIST FIRST

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 1, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 46.

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SEEK CHRIST FIRST.

By Christian at Work

WHATEVER object you have in life, seek Christ first. Receiving Christ in the heart and holding close fellowship with him is the one important and the all-important event of life. No life is complete without Christ. He is the one thing needful. He is the good part which shall never be taken away. Your worldly success may be brilliant, your worldly honor be heralded in triumph throughout the globe, you may reach the pinnacle of fame, but if that is all, and the light of your life goes out without a vital interest in the blood of Christ, then those terrible words of our Saviour applied to Judas, those words which compass a whole and never-ending eternity of sorrows, are equally applicable to you, "It had been good for that man if he had not been born."
Are you about to enter manhood? Seek Christ. You will need him. No man is safe without him. Afflictions may come. Christ is the true friend of the afflicted. "The Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me." Trials may come, and you will cry, "My heart is overwhelmed, lead me to the Rock that is higher than I." Christ is that Rock. Seek him now. He is the true Friend. He is the Brother on the throne, mighty to save and mighty to compassionate. He has passed through all suffering. He knows every storm that will assail you, and he freely offers the protection you need. Death will come. As Christ is your need in life, he is equally your need in death. Without him death is a dark future, so terribly dark no Christian would desire to look into it. With him you can look cheerfully beyond the grave, for he will guide you by his counsel, and afterward he will receive you to glory—his glory, Christ's glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father. Oh, the depths of that joy which comes from a life hid with Christ in God! Trust Christ, his love, his faithfulness. He is the Son of God; his companionship is pure; his love is holy; his friendship is eternal; His manners the desire of all Christian hearts.
May we all seek Christ first, and thus make God's home our home, and our home the home of God through his beloved Son.—Christian at Work.