Scripture Reading: John 12:26
“If any man serve me”; if he would be My servant; if he would belong to Me — “let him follow me” — live as I live, come close after Me in spirit, in manner of life, walk in My steps. “Where I am, there shall also my servant be.” To follow Christ here, in this world, in the way He marks out, is to follow Him also in His exaltation, to reward, to heavenly honor. To share His cross is also to share His glory.
If Jesus had taken care of His life, if, for instance, He had gone with these Greeks to their country, He might have been welcomed and have received homage, honor, and love, and have lived many years to teach and heal and do good; but there would have been no Gethsemane, with its tears, no Calvary, with its cross of redemption, no grave of Arimathea, with its resurrection. “Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.”
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