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We cannot live a Christian life that will please Christ without sore cost to ourselves. It never can be an easy thing to be such a disciple as Christ wants you to be. An easy, self indulgent life can never be a Christ like life. It was not easy for Christ to redeem the world. From beginning to end of his earthly ministry he poured out his own precious life. The people thronged about him with their sins, their sorrows, and their needs, and virtue went out of him continually to heal them, to comfort them, to feed their heart hunger. He utterly forgot himself and gave life and love without stint to everyone that asked. At last he literally gave himself, emptying out his heart’s blood to become life to dead souls. His sufferings were finished when he bowed his head on the cross. But now it is ours to suffer for him. We need never think that we can do anything to redeem this world, otherwise than as he wrought. Nothing but the giving of life will ever save the world. Nothing but love pouring out upon the sad and the sinful will comfort and regenerate them. It is ours, then, to perpetuate the self sacrifice of Christ on this earth. Only in so far as we do this are we living a life that will please him.