SEEING SELF IN CHRIST by Phillips Brooks

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 18, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 42.

SEEING SELF IN CHRIST.

By Phillips Brooks

EVERY man who came to Jesus saw in Him the image of His own true self—the thing that might be, and ought to be. Hundreds of them were not ready for the sight, and went away to be not what they might be nor what they ought to be, but what they basely chose to be. But none the less the pattern had been shown to them in the Mount.

Can not you go to Christ to-day, and find the idea of yourself in Him? In Christ's thought of you at this moment there is a picture of you which is perfectly distinct and separate and clear. It is not a vague, blurred picture, with all the special colors washed away. If you give up your life to serving and loving Christ, one of the blessings of your consecration of yourself to Him will be that in Him will open up to you this pattern of yourself. You will see your possible self as He sees it, and then life will have but one purpose and wish for you, which will be that you may realize that idea of yourself which you have seen in Him.—Phillips Brooks.