When we lay our lives at Christ’s feet in consecration, and tell him that we want to serve him with them, he gives them back to us again, and bids us use them in serving his people, our fellow-men. In the humblest and the lowliest of those who bear Christ’s image Christ himself comes to us. We do not know when he stands before us in a lowly one who needs our sympathy or our help. It would be a sad thing if we turned him away unfed from our doors some day, or neglected to visit him in his sickness. Let us not say we love Christ if we are not ready to serve those whom he sends to us to be served.