Author: Michael Himick

Take Jesus Christ out of Christianity, and you have absolutely nothing left. Christianity is Christ.

Peter Marshall

“Putting on Christ” . . . is not one among many jobs a Christian has to do; and it is not a sort of special exercise for the top class. It is the whole of Christianity. Christianity offers nothing else at all.

C. S. Lewis

Like Our Teacher

Jesus said, “Everyone who is fully trained will be like their teacher” — Luke 6:40

Christlikeness is key
to Christianity —
we are to be
like Our Teacher.
As C. S. Lewis,
that old don,
said while ’dressing
in his Mere:

“‘Putting on Christ’ . . .
is not one among
many jobs
a Christian has to do;
and it is not
a sort of special exercise
for the top class.
It is the whole of Christianity.
Christianity offers
nothing else at all.“

Brothers, sisters,
may Jesus be our true teacher,
may He be the clothes we wear,
may His Spirit metamorph us,
may Christlikeness be our prayer.

Devotional poem © 2016 Michael Himick. Used with permission.

Christ is not only the sign-post pointing the way; He is also the power to bear us over every God-directed road. A Christ-like life is only possible as the life of Christ possesses us.

Herbert Lockyer

Christ Himself, not this or that philosophy or this or that set of rules, is our Wisdom, our Life, our Hope of glory. Being a Christian, essentially, is loving Him and living in Him.

Henry Halley