come to its highest and best.

It is the life, too, that leads to the richest reward. The thorns are
turned into stars. The emblem of pain and sacrifice is changed into a
crown of light and glory.

But it is the life of likeness to Christ. It is a share of His own
crown and of His own glory that He offers to us, and we cannot get
these except by being like Him. We can only win them by following Him.
He has suffered for us, and given Himself for us. We need to learn of
Him, and to be filled with His Spirit of self-forgetting, self-denying,
self-sacrificing love.

Some of you may be old enough to feel that your life has already been
too much like that of the man with the muck-rake. It has been too
selfish and too worldly: it has been a life beneath you; a life of
chains and bondage; a life perhaps touched with vileness; a life spent
in pursuit of worthless trifles; a life degrading and darkened and
foolish and vain. Well, this patient Saviour stands beside you. He
bends over you in pity. He touches you with His pierced hand. He asks
you to yield to His love, and to be loving like Him. He offers you the
crown of glory, instead of the rubbish that you have coveted so long.
If you will look up to Him, and meet His look, and take His gift, and
follow Him, you will find true light, true freedom, true riches, true
nobility. His suffering will be rewarded. His patience will be
satisfied. There will be joy in the presence of the angels of God.

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