What Christ Wants by Phillips Brooks

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 19, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 12.

What Christ Wants

By Phillips Brooks

Is THERE nothing that Christ, as your friend, your Lord, your Saviour, wants you to do that you are leaving undone to-day? Do you doubt one instant that it is His will that you should honor and help and bless all the men about you who are His brethren? And are you doing anything like that? Do you doubt one instant that His will is that you should make life serious and lofty? Do you doubt one instant that He wants you to be pure in deed and word and thought? And are you pure? Do you doubt one instant that His command is for you openly to own Him and declare that you are His servant, before the world? And have you done it? These are questions which make the whole matter clear. No, not in quiet lanes nor in bright temple courts, as once He spake, and not from blazing heavens, as men sometimes seem to expect—not so does Christ speak to us.

And yet He speaks. I know what He—there in all His glory, He here in my heart—wants me to do to-day, and I know that I am not mistaken in my knowledge. It is no guess of mine. It is His voice that tells me.—Phillips Brooks.