Galatians 2:20-21 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me… In the early summer of 1863 Archbishop Whately delivered his last charge, and soon after entered on the painful martyrdom that only terminated with his death. "He felt as if red-hot gimlets were being put through his leg," and the pain steadily increased. The garden-chair; then the change from room to room; then the books that he read, had to be successively dropped. He felt his uselessness. "Have you ever preached a sermon on the text, 'Thy will be done'?" he said to a friend one day; "how did you explain it?" When he replied, "Just so," he said, "that is the meaning;" and added, in a voice choked with tears, "but it is hard — very hard sometimes — to say it." Though he restrained every word of impatience while the agony he suffered brought streams of perspiration down his face, he would often pray during the night, "O my God, grant me patience!" If he was betrayed into a moment's fretfulness he would immediately beg pardon. Some one remarked that his great mind was supporting him. "No!" he emphatically cried, "it is not that which supports me. It is trust in Christ; the life I live is by Christ alone." Parallel Verses KJV: I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. |
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