Bedside Watchman A Just Master

Last Updated on : October 11, 2014

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July 24th -- Matthew 25

A Just Master

IN the final day of judgment we shall not be able to excuse sterility in these essentials by reference to our strenuous labours to produce fruit for which Christ never asked. If any such excuses came to mind we should surely think of the unfaithful servant in the parable and become dumb. We have not a hard master who will demand fruit where he has never planted, who will require a personal rectitude of super-refined separation which he never commanded; but we have a just Master who will require the performance of those essential duties that he so patiently explained. If we give bread and water, either natural or spiritual, to servants of Christ who hunger and thirst, we give to the Lord himself. If we neglect our opportunities to give, we neglect Christ. If we sin against Christ, and assuredly if we cut off those whom he approves we cut off Christ.

Islip Collyer, Principles and Proverbs, page 21