[b]Loving the unseen Christ[/b]

(J. R. Miller, "In Green Pastures")

Holy thoughts in the heart, transfigure the life.
Your daily thoughts--build up your character.
Our hearts are the quarries where the blocks are
fashioned, which we build into our life-temple. If
our thoughts and meditations are holy, beautiful,
true, pure, loving, and gentle--our life will grow
into Christ-likeness.

Drummond tells of a young girl whose character
ripened into rare beauty--"one of the loveliest lives,"
he says, "that ever bloomed on earth!" She always
wore around her neck a little locket. But no one was
ever allowed to open the locket or to know what it
contained.

Once, however, in a time of dangerous illness, she
permitted a friend to look within it, and there she
saw the words, "Whom having not seen--I love."
That was the secret of the dear child's transfiguration
of character--loving the unseen Christ. The same
love--warm, tender, earnest, glowing in the heart
year after year--will transfigure any life into
heavenly beauty!

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SI Moderator - Greg Gordon