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A New Life (Revival and Beyond)
that the testimony for His glory, furnished in a well-ordered life and
a godly conversation, shall deepen and intensify in power. Its results
may never be seen on earth, but they will be made manifest before
God and angels.
What Is My Part?
We are to do all that we can do on our part to fight the good fight
of faith. We are to wrestle, to labor, to strive, to agonize to enter in at
the strait gate. We are to set the Lord ever before us. With clean hands,
with pure hearts, we are to seek to honor God in all our ways. Help
has been provided for us in Him who is mighty to save. The spirit of
truth and light will quicken and renew us by its mysterious workings;
for all our spiritual improvement comes from God, not from ourselves.
The true worker will have divine power to aid him, but the idler will
not be sustained by the Spirit of God.
In one way we are thrown upon our own energies; we are to strive
earnestly to be zealous and to repent, to cleanse our hands and purify
our hearts from every defilement; we are to reach the highest standard,
believing that God will help us in our efforts. We must seek if we would
find, and seek in faith; we must knock, that the door may be opened
unto us. The Bible teaches that everything regarding our salvation
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depends upon our own course of action. If we perish, the responsibility
will rest wholly upon ourselves. If provision has been made, and if we
accept God’s terms, we may lay hold on eternal life. We must come to
Christ in faith, we must be diligent to make our calling and election
sure.
A Do-Nothing Faith?
The forgiveness of sin is promised to him who repents and believes;
the crown of life will be the reward of him who is faithful to the end.
We may grow in grace by improving through the grace we already
have. We are to keep ourselves unspotted from the world, if we would
be found blameless in the day of God. Faith and works go hand in hand,
they act harmoniously in the work of overcoming. Works without faith
are dead, and faith without works is dead. Works will never save us;
it is the merit of Christ that will avail in our behalf. Through faith in