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Christ needs His people, now in this life, to accomplish His purposes.
He needs our lips to preach His Gospel, as He told His disciples (Matt. 28:19).
He needs our hearts to perfume with His presence (Eph. 3:17), as He needed the tabernacle of old (Ex. 25:8).
He needs our company for fellowship, as may be gathered from His talk and walk with the two disciples who were journeying to Emmaus (Luke 24:15).
He needs our ear to reveal to us. His secrets, as He did in the case of Abram regarding Sodom (Gen. 18:17).
He needs our hands to minister to the needs of others, as may be gathered from Matt. 25:34-37.
He needs our love to gladden Him, as is illustrated in His regard and pleasure in Mary anointing Him with the precious ointment (John 12:3-7).
He needs our obedience to glorify Him, as is shown in His commendation of Job to the devil (Job 1:8).
He needs our wills, to mould them, as is plainly expressed in His invitation to take His yoke upon us (Matt. 11:29).
He needs our talents to speak for Him, as is represented in His appreciation of the workmen of the tabernacle (Ex. 31:2-3).
He needs our life to reproduce His own, as it may be observed from the apostle’s words in Gal. 2:20.
He needs our praise to honour Him, as He clearly states in His words to the thankful Samaritan leper (Luke 17:17).
He needs our whole being, spirit, soul, and body, to sanctify, that like the temple of old, “every whit may utter His glory” (Psalm 29:9, M.).
Our need is met, as we meet the need of Christ. The ass’s colt has been honoured for all time in carrying Christ into Jerusalem. In like manner, those who honour God are honoured by Him (Prov. 4:8); those who give to God, receive from God (Luke 6:38); those who yield to God, He yields Himself to them (Rom. 6:13-14); those who obey God, have the power of God (Acts 5:32); and those who endure for God have a crown of righteousness as a reward (2 Tim. 4:7-8).
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