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Scripture
This is what you were chosen to do. Christ gave you an example to follow. He suffered for you. So you should do the same as he did: “He never sinned, and he never told a lie.” – 1 Peter 2:21-22 ERV
Devotion
When I was in middle school, ‘WWJD’ bracelets were a thing. These simple, fabric bracelets were available in any color, with the bold white letters stitched in the center. Many of my friends rocked these bracelets, proudly proclaiming that in every move they made they first thought, ‘What would Jesus do?’
At the time, as a fashionista pre-teen, I liked the bracelets because they were trendy. I wasn’t a Christian, I wasn’t involved in church. I didn’t like the bracelets because of what they stood for. Frankly, I had no idea what Jesus would do in my myriad of middle school situations. Looking back, I definitely wasn’t doing what Jesus would’ve done.
But the idea behind those bracelets stuck with me.
It’s such a simple question, but it’s one that began to affect my choices, my thought processes, my interactions with others. I know that this is the basis of Christianity, living life to be more like Jesus. But in my everyday situations, I’ve started asking myself this simple question. If Jesus were facing this exact same situation, what would He do? When struggling with an independent toddler, what would Jesus do? When navigating hard relationships with spouses, family, friends, what would Jesus do? When worrying about the next day, next year, next five years, what would Jesus do?
I ask this question, and then I look to the Scriptures to find the answer. Jesus would love (John 15:9). Jesus would forgive (Ephesians 4:32). Jesus would pray (Luke 6:12). There are so many stories of how Jesus would act, but these three have been my go-tos.
I love through the toddler tantrums. I love and forgive through the relationship roller coasters. I pray through my anxiety. This question from my childhood has been like a compass to point me back to Jesus and His guidance in my life. He is the model. Living like Jesus is our goal. If we surrender, if we allow it, God will guide us and show us how to live like Jesus. Then, He will use our lives to reflect this love, this forgiveness, this dedication to prayer back to our family, our friends, and everyone around us.
Whatever you face today, ask yourself: what would Jesus do?
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As a fellow-preacher of the Gospel, he knew better than any layman how to interpret the hidden springs of success to count the cost of Herculean efforts made, and better, understand the great man’s life-work in all its thousands of minute details which he, as an intimate personal friend had the opportunity to observe.
Like Spurgeon, he has the power to earn and raise large sums of money, but he devotes every dollar beyond a reasonable living expense to the cause he has so much at heart. His remarkable line of work, also, in many ways corresponds with that of Spurgeon,
The similarity in the work of the English Spurgeon and the American Conwell has often been commented upon by press and people. Spurgeon made, and Conwell is making, a complete sacrifice of talents, time and health to the one aim in life-the salvation of souls. Each commenced life a poor boy, and had an early life fraught with discouragements and temptations.
The author’s grand work for the Grace Baptist Church, of Philadelphia, has justly distinguished him as the greatest preacher of his denomination in this country. He was a student at Yale College, and graduated in the Law Department of Albany University and was admitted to the New York bar in 1865. His health not permitting the practice of law, he began as traveling correspondent of the Boston Traveler and the New York Tribune, during which his constant companion and warmest friend was Bayard Taylor, with who he traveled all over the world, and obtained distinction as a journalist.
In addition to the pastorate of a church which has one of the most remarkable houses of worship in the world, open every hour of every day and night in the year, and is never untenanted, Dr. Conwell is the head of Temple College, connected with the church fostered by him, which is for the free education of working-men and women in the classic collegiate branches, with fourteen professors, a preparatory department that sends pupils to Yale, Harvard and Amherst, and giving itself decrees equal to those of Princeton. He is the head of the Samaritan Hospital, also an outgrowth of his personal effort and example, which is doing incalculable good in Philadelphia.
In addition. to his church work, Dr. Conwell lectures all over the United States, to large and delighted audiences.
He is also a prolific author, The most important of his works are a ” Life of Garfield,” which he wrote at the home of the martyred President, in Mentor; “Why and How the Chinese Immigrate,” the material for which he gathered in the Chinese Empire Life of Hon. James G. Blaine,” Life of Bayard Taylor,” and “Acres of Diamonds,” each of which has been appreciatively read by thousands of readers in this and other countries.
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