Looking to Christ Who Died
It is said that when Cyrus had conquered Armenia, he said to Tigranes, the conquered king's son, "What would you do to save your wife from slavery?" He replied, "I would willingly lay down my life to save her from such a fate." Upon this Cyrus released and restored them to power. After Cyrus was gone, one praised his beauty, another his clemency, another his valor; when Tigranes, turning to his wife, asked what she thought of Cyrus. "Indeed," said she, "I did not observe him." "What then were you looking at?" he asked in surprise. She answered, "At him who offered to lay down his life for me." How many for whom Christ died look first at any other object, in preference to him who gave his life for them. What ingratitude! How base and degraded is man to neglect his Saviour!