The New Life

The New Life.
spirit of docility, to which the Lord shall make His
secret known, i
There is a second hindrance in the way of faith.
In the life of every plant and every animal and every
child there lies sufficient power by which it can become
big. In the new life, God has made the most
glorious provision of a sufficient power whereby His
child can grow and become all that he must be.
Christ Himself is his life and his power of life.^ Yet,
because this mighty life is not visible or cannot be
felt, but works in the midst of human weakness, the
young Christian often becomes of doubtful mind.
He then fails to believe that he shall grow with Divine
power and certainty. He does not understand that
the believing life is a life of faith whereby he reckons
on the life that is in Christ for him, although he
neither sees, feels, nor experiences anything.'
Let every one, then, that has received this new life,
cultivate this great conviction : it is eternal life that
works in me : it works with Divine power : I can and
afid shall become what God will have me be : Christ
Himself is my life : I have to receive Him every day
as my life given by God to me, and He shall be my
life in full power.
O my Father, who hast given me Thy Son that I
may have life in Him, I thank Thee for the glorious
1 Ps. XXV. 5, 8, 9, cxliii. 8 ; Isa. xlii. i6, Ixiv. 4 ;
Matt. xi. 25 ; i.
Cor. i, 18, 19, ii. 7, 10, 12 ; Heb. xi. 8.
'Ps. xviii. 2, xxvii. i, xxxviii. 3, Ixxxiv. 8 ;
John xiv. 19 ; Gal.
ii. 20 ; Col. iii. 3, 4.
»Hab. ii. 4; Matt. vi. 27
; Rom. i. 17; Gal. iii. 11 ; Heb. x. 38.
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