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matters that attention to this world's affairs is made a secondary matter or postponed. And why is it so? Simply because true conversions to God are uncommon. Few really feel their sins and flee to Christ by faith. Few really pass from death to life, and become new creatures. Yet these few are the real Christians of the world. These are the people whose religion, like the Samaritan woman's, tells on others. Happy are they who know something by experience of this woman's feelings, and can say with Paul, "I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ" (Philip. 3:8 KJV) Happy are they who have given up everything for Christ's sake, or at any rate have altered the relative importance of all things in their minds! If your “eye be single, your whole body shall be full of light" (Matt. 6:22 KJV). We see, lastly, in this passage, how zealous a truly converted person is to do good to others. We are told that the Samaritan woman "went into the city, and said to the men, Come, see a
way, the Samaritan woman said, "Come and see Christ." She used no abstruse arguments. She attempted no deep reasoning about our Lord's claim to be the Messiah. She only said, "Come and see." Out of the abundance of her heart, her mouth spoke. That which the Samaritan woman here did, all true Christians ought to do likewise. The Church needs it. The state of the world demands it. Common sense points out that it is right. Everyone who has received the grace of God and tasted that Christ is gracious ought to find words to testify of Christ to others. Where is our faith, if we believe that souls around us are perishing, and that Christ alone can save them, and yet remain silent? Where is our charity if we can see others going down to hell, and yet say nothing to them about Christ and salvation? We may well doubt our own love for Christ if our hearts are never moved to speak of Him. We may well doubt the safety of our own souls if we feel no concern about the souls of others. What are WE ourselves? This, after all, is the question that demands our attention. Do we feel the supreme importance of spiritual things, and the comparative nothingness of the things of the world? Do we ever talk to others about God, and Christ, and eternity, and the soul, and heaven, and hell? If not, what is the value of our faith? Where is the reality of our Christianity? Let us take heed lest we awake too late, and find that we are lost forever, a wonder to angels
man who told me all things that ever I did--is not this the Christ?" On the day of her conversion, she became a missionary! She felt so deeply the amazing benefit she had received from
Christ that she could not remain silent about Him. Just as Andrew told his brother Peter about Jesus, and Philip told Nathanael that he had found the Messiah, and Saul, when converted, immediately preached Christ, so, in the same
and devils, and, above all, a wonder to ourselves, because of our own obstinate blindness and folly.
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