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Is Jesus like anybody I know?

A little child was thinking about the unseen Christ to whom she prayed, and came to her mother with the question, " Is Jesus like anybody I know? "

The question was not an unreasonable one — it was one to which the child should have received the answer of "Yes."

Every true disciple of Christ ought to be an answer — in some sense, at least — to the child's inquiry. Every little one ought to see Christ's beauty mirrored in its Christian mother's face.

Every Sunday-school teacher's character, should reflect some tracings of the Eternal Love on which the scholars may gaze.

Whoever looks upon the life of any Christian, should see in it at once the reflection of the beauty of Christ.

"And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever-increasing glory" 2 Corinthians 3:18

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-====There are always more rungs of the ladder to climb====
+====Is Jesus like anybody I know?====
-"But just as He who called you is holy — so be holy in all you do; for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy." 1 Peter 1:15-16
+A little child was thinking about the unseen Christ to whom she prayed, and came to her mother with the question, " Is Jesus like anybody I know? "
-Every step of the heavenly way is uphill — and steep at that. Heavenly life always keeps above us, no matter how far we climb toward it.
+The question was not an unreasonable one — it was one to which the child should have received the answer of "Yes."
-We never in this world, get to a point where we may regard ourselves as having reached life's goal, as, having attained the loftiest height within our reach — there are always more rungs of the ladder to climb . The noblest life ever lived on earth, is but beginning its growth and attainment.
+Every true disciple of Christ ought to be an answer — in some sense, at least — to the child's inquiry. Every little one ought to see Christ's beauty mirrored in its Christian mother's face.
-Mozart , just before his death, said, "Now I begin to see what might be done in music."
+Every Sunday-school teacher's character, should reflect some tracings of the Eternal Love on which the scholars may gaze.
-That is all which the saintliest man ever learns in this world about living — he just begins to see what might be done in living. It is a comfort to know that that really is the whole of our earthly mission — just to learn how to live , and that the true living is to be beyond this world.
+Whoever looks upon the life of any Christian, should see in it at once the reflection of the beauty of Christ.
-"Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.
+"And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever-increasing glory" 2 Corinthians 3:18
-But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:12-14
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