The New Life

*Matt ix. 23 ; i John v. 3, 4.
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Jesus the Keeper.
posited with the Lord.
You also surrendered yourselves
to the Lord, but perhaps not with the clear
understanding that it is in order to be kept everyday.
Do this now daily. Deposit your soul with
Jesus as a costly pledge that He will keep secure.
Do this same thing with every part of your life. Is
there something that you cannot rightly hold — your
heart, because it is too worldly;^ your tongue, be-
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cause it is too idle ; your temper, because it is too
passionate ; ' your calling to confess the Lord, because
you are too weak ? * Learn, then, to deposit it as a
pledge for keeping with Jesus, in order that He may
fulfill in you the promise of God about it. You often
pray and strive too much in vain against a sin : it is
because, although this is done with God's help, you
would be the person who would overcome. No : entrust
the matter wholly to Jesus "
: the battle is not
yours, but God's." ^ Leave it in His hands : believe
in Him to do it for you "
: This is the victory that
hath overcome the world, even your faith."* But
you must first place it wholly out of your hands in
His.
Learn from Paul to set your confidence only on the
power of Jesus. I am persuaded that He is able to
keep my pledge. You have an almighty Jesus to
1 Ps. xxxi, 6 ;
Jer. xxxi. 33.
* Ps. li. 17, cxli. 3.
» Ps. cxix. 165 ;
Jer. xxvi. 3, 4 ;
John xiv. 27 ; Phil. £. 6, 7
; »
Thess. iii. 16.
*Isa. 1. 7 ;
Jer. i.
9 Matt. x. 19, 20 ; ;
Luke xxvi. 15.
6 Ex. xiv. 14; Deut. iii. 22, xx. 4
; 2 Chroa. xx. 15.