Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: and, see, I am with you always, even to the end of the world. Amen. Suppose a friend who combines everything which goes to make your idea of friendship — intellectual, wise, modest, fond, true, good. Suppose such a person just set to your particular taste — in harmony with every thought; his society like a continual strain of music. You lean on his judgment — you are happy in his love. What a bloom on life — what a sunlight — what a charm — what a necessity that person would become to you! But what is that compared to Christ — to a man who has once learned the secret of finding His presence a reality? who knows and loves Him as his own near, dear, loving Saviour — the Brother of his soul — much more than another self. The very fact that He is there — though He did nothing, though there were no actual intercourse, though He were not seen — has an untold spell upon you. Did you never feel what the presence of a very little child would be, though there were not another man in the world? Think of what even a silent presence can be! But it is not silent. (J. Vaughan, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. |
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