The New Life
Words of God for young disciples of Christ by Andrew Murray 1891 Vintage book from internet archives
Words of God for young disciples of Christ
by Andrew Murray
1891 Vintage book from internet archives
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<strong>The</strong> I,ife of Faith.<br />
eous shall live by faith alone, that is, shall have<br />
power to live according to the will of God. As at<br />
his conversion he found it necessary to understand<br />
that there was nothing good in him, and that he must<br />
receive grace as one that was powerless and godless,<br />
so must he as a believer just as clearly understand<br />
that in him there is nothing good, and that he must<br />
receive his power for good every moment from<br />
above. 1 And his work must therefore be every<br />
morning and every hour to look up and believe and<br />
receive his power from above, out of his Lord in<br />
heaven. I am not to do what I can, and hope in the<br />
Lord to supply strength. No : as one who has been<br />
dead, who is literally able for nothing in himself, and<br />
whose life is in his Lord above, I am to reckon by<br />
faith on Him who will work in me mightily.'^<br />
Happy the Christian who understands that his<br />
greatest danger every day is again to fall under the<br />
law, and to be fain to serve God in the flesh with his<br />
own strength. Happy when he discerns that he is<br />
not under the law which just demands and yet is<br />
powerless through the flesh, but is under grace where<br />
we have simply to receive what has been given.<br />
Happy when he fully appropriates for himself the<br />
promise of the Spirit who transfers all that is in<br />
Christ to him. Yea, happy when he understands<br />
what it is to live by faith, and to serve, not in the<br />
oldness of the letter, but in the newness of the Spirit.*<br />
1 Rom. vii. i8, vim. 2, 13 ;<br />
Heb. xi. 38.<br />
>Rom. iv. 17 ;<br />
2 Cor. i. 9 ;<br />
Col. i. 29, ii. 3.<br />
'Rom. vii. 4, 6, xii. s, 6; Gal. v. 18; PhiL iii.3.<br />
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