CHRIST, THE BLESSED ONE

 

By A. W. Tozer

 

Take my yoke upon you . . . For my yoke is easy, and my

burden is light.                                  Matthew 11:29-30

 

    I feel great sorrow for those who read the Sermon on

the Mount and then conclude that Jesus was providing a

word picture of men and women comprising the human

race.  In this world,  we  find  nothing approaching  the

virtues of which Jesus spoke in the Beatitudes.

 

    Instead of poverty of spirit, we find the rankest kind of

pride.  Instead of mourners, we find pleasure seekers.

Instead  of  meekness,  we  find  only  arrogance,  and

instead  of hunger  after  righteousness,  we  hear  men

saying, "I am rich and increased with goods and have

need of nothing!"

 

    Instead of mercy, we find cruelty.  Instead of purity of

heart,  we  encounter  corrupt  imaginings.  Instead  of

peacemakers, we find men quarrelsome and resentful,

fighting back with every weapon at their command.

 

    Jesus said He came to release us from our sad heritage

of sin.  Blessed is the sinner who finds that Christ's words

are the Truth itself; that He is the Blessed One who came

from above to confer blessedness upon mankind!

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Yours in Christ,

Paul N. F.