Unless we gain Christ, our earthly life is a total and irreparable failure. How solemn and how sweet is the gospel-message! It is the offer of a gift, without which we are lost. The gift is Jesus. We can never receive any gift equal to or like Him to all eternity. The most marvellous experience of the love of God is here on earth, when we believe in Jesus. God Himself draws nigh to us with the assurance of His eternal and immutable love. Christ is ours—wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption—and the sinner, who but a moment before was poor and sad, is able to rejoice in unsearchable riches, and to glory in God.

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