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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Jesus the Keeper.<br />
" <strong>The</strong> Lord is thy keeper.'' For every weakness,<br />
every temptation, learn to deposit your soul with<br />
Him as a pledge. You can reckon upon it, you can<br />
shout joyfully over it: "<strong>The</strong> Lord shall keep you<br />
from all evil." ^<br />
Holy Jesus, I take <strong>The</strong>e as my keeper. Let Thy<br />
name, " <strong>The</strong> Lord thy keeper," sound as a song in<br />
my heart the whole day. Teach me in every need to<br />
deposit my case as a pledge with <strong>The</strong>e, and to be<br />
assured that Thou art able to keep it. Amen.<br />
1. <strong>The</strong>re was once a woman who for years long, and with<br />
much prayer, had striven against her temper, but could not<br />
obtain the victory. On a certain day she resolved not to come<br />
out of her room until by earnest prayer she had the power to<br />
overcome. She went out in the opinion that she should succeed.<br />
Scarcely had she been in the household, when something gave<br />
her offence and caused her to be angry. She was deeply<br />
ashamed, burst into tears, and hastened back to her room. A<br />
daughter, who understood the way of faith better than she,<br />
went to her and said, "Mother, I have observed your conflict:<br />
may I tell you what I think the hindrance is?" "Yes, my<br />
child." " Mother, you struggle against temper, and pray that<br />
the I,ord may help you to overcome. This is wrong. <strong>The</strong> Lord<br />
must do it alone. You must give temper wholly iuto His hands :<br />
then He takes it wholly, and He keeps you." <strong>The</strong> mother<br />
could not at first understand this, but later it was made plain<br />
to her. And she enjoyed the blessedness of the life in which<br />
Jesus keeps us, and we by faith have the victory. Do you understand<br />
this?<br />
2. " <strong>The</strong> Lord must help me to overcome sin :<br />
" the expression<br />
is altogether outside of the <strong>New</strong> Testament. <strong>The</strong> grace of God<br />
1 Josh. i.<br />
9 ; Ps. xxiii. 4 ; Rom. viii. 3s, 39.<br />
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