“But I do not know how to awake and rise!” I will tell you. Get up, and do something the Master tells you; so make yourself his disciple at once. Instead of asking yourself  whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have this day done one thing because he said, Do it, or once abstained because he said, Do not do it. It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe in him, if you do not anything he tells you.

But you can begin at once to be a disciple of the Living One—by obeying him in the first thing you can think of in which you are not obeying him. We must learn to obey him in everything, and so must begin somewhere. Let it be at once, and in the very next thing that lies at the door of our conscience! Oh fools and slow of heart, if you think of nothing but Christ, and do not set yourselves to do his words! You but build your houses on the sand.

—George MacDonald, Creation in Christ

Yesterday I preached a sermon on being a sign of Christ. MacDonald cuts to the chase here on an essential ingredient in being Christ’s signs. It is never easy but we can count on Christ’s help as we live to be his sign. Whose sign are you?