by Octavius Winslow
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"Consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess." Hebrews 3:1
Consider Jesus: Thoughts for Daily Duty, Service, and Suffering
It is a great privilege of the believer to live by the day upon Jesus. He cannot properly or safely go beyond it, nor has he any especial promise to warrant his so doing. The promise is, "as your days so shall your strength be." And it is no little achievement of faith if, indeed, its strength lasts even to this limited period. Each day's need is enough to task all our energies, and exhaust all our supplies, without our "taking thought for the morrow."
But what a mercy thus to live upon Christ! To feel that, when we exchange the morning's dreams for the day's stern and trying realities, that the prayer of faith may draw large supplies from Jesus; and, that thus replenished and equipped, we may safely reach its close unscathed by the fiery ordeal through which we have passed.
To aid the Christian in this daily life, these pages have been written. The subjects selected are, for the most part, of a doctrinal and practical nature--subjects, indeed, upon which ponderous tomes have been written--and yet the plan pursued by the author has necessarily restricted his meditations to the smallest possible space, and to a mere fragmentary and elementary unfolding of each topic. But, unpretending as his work is, it may meet the needs of the weary, the suffering, and the sorrowing believer not having time or strength for a more elaborate volume; and thus be as a small casket of perfume, incensing some couch of languor, and filling some chamber of sickness with the fragrance of that Name which is above every name, and which, to those who know and love it, is as ointment poured forth--the divine, the precious, the ever-to-be-adored name of--JESUS!
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Table of Contents
Preface
Consider Jesus– in Lowliness of Birth
Consider Jesus– in the Elevation of Rank
Consider Jesus– in the Possession of Wealth
Consider Jesus– in the Straitness of Poverty
Consider Jesus– in the Exercise of Influence
Consider Jesus– in Filial Subjection
Consider Jesus– in Obedience to Divine Law
Consider Jesus– in Obedience to Human Law
Consider Jesus– the Object of Popular Favor
Consider Jesus– the Object of Popular Hate
Consider Jesus– as Without Deceit
Consider Jesus– as Tempted by Satan
Consider Jesus– as Afflicted
Consider Jesus– Our Paymaster
Consider Jesus– as Forsaken by Man
Consider Jesus– as Forsaken by God
Consider Jesus– in Loneliness
Consider Jesus– as Not Alone
Consider Jesus– in Soul-trouble
Consider Jesus– in Communion with God
Consider Jesus– in the Forgiveness of Injury
Consider Jesus– in the Exercise of Praise
Consider Jesus– in the Avoidance of Offence
Consider Jesus– in Sickness
Consider Jesus– in the Anticipation of Death
Consider Jesus– in Intercessory Prayer
Consider Jesus– in Bereavement
Consider Jesus– as Receiving Sinners
Consider Jesus– in His Atoning Blood
Consider Jesus– in the Power of His Resurrection
Consider Jesus– in His Second Appearing