“Christ in you” (Col. i. 27).
How great the difference between the old and the new way of deliverance!
One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling. A sufferer in one
of our hospitals was in danger of losing his sight from a small piece of
broken needle that had entered his eye.
Operation after operation had only irritated it, and driven the foreign
substance farther still into the delicate nerves of the sensitive organ.
At length a skilful young physician thought of a new expedient. He came
one day without lancet and probes, and holding in his hand a small but
powerful magnet, which he kept before the wounded eye, as close as it
could bear. Immediately the piece of steel began to move toward the
powerful attraction, and soon flew up to meet it and left the suffering
eye completely relieved, without an effort or a laceration. It was as
simple as it was wonderful. By a single touch of power the organ was saved
and a dangerous trouble completely cured.
It is thus that God delivers us, by the simple attraction of Christ’s life
and power.