'The real goal of Christian living
The real goal of Christian living
In the presence of a great painting, a young artist said to Mr. Ruskin, "Ah! if I could put such a dream on canvas."
"Dream on canvas?" growled Ruskin. "It will take ten thousand touches of the brush on the canvas to make your dream! "
It is easier far to put the artist's dreams on canvas, than to put upon our human lives, the beautiful visions of Christ-likeness which we find on the gospel pages. Yet that is the real goal of Christian living .
And, though hard, it is not impossible. If we but toiled and tried and wrought, in our efforts to get our visions of character translated into reality — we would all be very noble. Never yet, indeed, was ideal too fair to be realized at last, through the help of Christ.
The heavenly visions God gives us are prophecies of what we may become, what we are born to become.
"To this end I labor, struggling with all His energy, which so powerfully works in me!" Colossians 1:29