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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Stumblings.<br />
your weakness to Him, and reckon on Him to keep<br />
you. Sing continually the song : "To Him that is<br />
mighty to keep you, be the glory."<br />
And then, let stumbling make you very prudent?-<br />
By faith you shall strive and overcome. In the power<br />
of your keeper and the joy and security of His help,<br />
you shall have courage to watch. <strong>The</strong> firmer you<br />
make your election, the stronger the certitude that<br />
He has chosen you, and will not let you go, the more<br />
conscientious shall you become, to live in all things<br />
only for Him, in Him, through Him.^ Doing this,<br />
the word of God says, you shall never stumble.<br />
I/ord Jesus, a sinner who is ready to stumble every<br />
moment would give honor to <strong>The</strong>e, who art mighty<br />
to keep from stumbling : Thine is the might and the<br />
power : I take <strong>The</strong>e as my keeper. I look to Thy<br />
love which has chosen me, and wait for the fulfilment<br />
of Thy<br />
*'<br />
word : Ye shall never stumble." Amen.<br />
1. Let your thoughts about what the grace of God can do for<br />
you, be taken only from the word of God. Our natural expectations—that<br />
we must just always be stumbling—are wrong.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are strengthened by more than one thing. <strong>The</strong>re is secret<br />
unwillingness to surrender everything. <strong>The</strong>re is the example<br />
of so many sluggish Christians. <strong>The</strong>re is the unbelief that cannot<br />
quite understand that God will really keep us. <strong>The</strong>re is the<br />
experience of so many disappointments, when we have striven<br />
in our own power.<br />
2. Let no stumbling be tolerated, for the reason that it is trifling.<br />
1 Prov. xxviii. 14 ; Phil. ii. 12 ; i Pet. i. 17, i8.<br />
' 2 Chron. xx. 15 ; Ps. xviii. 30, 37, xliv. 5, 9 ;<br />
John v. 4, 5 ; Rom.<br />
xi. 20 ; 2 Cor. i. 24 ; i Phil. ii. 13.<br />
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