Practical Christianity

How significant is all this! How it reminds us that the very essence of practical Christianity is caring for the blessing of others. This is like Christ. It has often been said that in the gospels you never find Christ doing anything for Himself. He loved His enemies, prayed for His murderers, went about doing good, and died for the ungodly. To the man named "Legion," out of whom He had cast many devils, He said, "Return to thine own house, and show how great things God hath done unto thee."
And we are told that “he went his way, and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him.” Luke 8:30, 39. Are we not also instructed by an apostle to "look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others"? But we must taste and know the goodness of the Lord in our own souls, before we can communicate sweetness and comfort to others. The principle is surely not less true in us than it was in apostolic days that we comfort others "by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God." 2 Cor. 1:4.