'An easy, self-indulgent life
An easy, self-indulgent life
"Christ loved the church — and gave Himself up for her" Ephesians 5:25
"Our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world" Galatians 1:3-4
It was not easy for Christ to redeem us. Virtue went out of Him continually to supply the needs in other lives. At last He literally opened His heart and poured out the last drop of its rich blood to become life for dead souls.
We cannot live a Christian life that will please Christ, without some cost to ourselves. It can never be an easy thing to be such a disciple as Christ wants you to be. An easy, self-indulgent life , never can be a deeply Christlike life.
"Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple." Luke 14:27