Is it possible that God's very own people can miss Christ and His birth on account of their fear? INDEED!
John Bunyan recognized this when in his Pilgrim's Progress he described the following scene: Christian is climbing the Hill of Difficulty. When he finally arrived at the top, he met two panicked men, Mistrust and Timorous. When Christian saw their state, he asked, “Sirs, what's the matter? you run the wrong way.” Listen to Bunyan's commentary:
“Timorous answered, that they were going to the city of Zion, and had got up that difficult place: but, said he, the farther we go, the more danger we meet with; wherefore we turned, and are going back again.”
Oh, family of God! We are so much like Timorous. The blessings and graces of Christ lay in front of us. And yet on account of our fear and timidity we turn our back on God and His graces. Like Peter after the resurrection, our fear drives us back to our former way of living.
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