We continue in the Life of Victory as we entered it, by continuing the
attitude of surrender and faith, moment by moment. It is the principle
of “contact”; as long as the trolley keeps on the wire the electric
power is supplied to run the car; as we keep looking unto Jesus there
is Victory. If a slip of faith comes, if the trolley gets off the wire,
and sin enters (which is always possible but never necessary), do not
stop to argue with Satan about the sin or listen to his suggestion that
you never had Victory: confess, receive instant forgiveness (1 John
1:9), look again in faith just as when you entered into the blessed
“rest of faith.”
Does this message leave you with joy and gladness in your heart,
because you know that this life is yours? Have you taken the Gift? Or
are you like the young Christian who told an older woman that she had
surrendered and believed _a thousand times_, and she was in hopeless
darkness about it all.
“Well,” this older Christian said, “just stop doing that, or trying to
do anything, and trust him to do it all.”
“I have done that a hundred times,” was the discouraged answer.
She had no will power to do anything, and she was hungry for Victory.
“If you can do nothing else, just lift up your heart to Christ.”
“I can’t. My heart is too heavy to lift up.”
It Is as Simple as This
“Well, one thing you can do, for it is just a physical act. You can
lift up your eyes. Will you do that?”
The young woman promised that she would do that, and on the way home
she kept her eyes directed upward as unto him. The next day she gave
her testimony with a radiant face, rejoicing in the Lord: “I lifted up
my eyes, and my heart went up with them.”
The Victorious Life is just as gloriously simple as that――just looking
up――unto Jesus――and KEEP ON LOOKING.
OUT OF BONDAGE INTO LIBERTY
“They do not care a snap of their fingers whether Abraham was
justified by faith or works,” writes a leading American preacher in
a recent article that seeks to interpret the heart-cry of men to-day
for a prophet who can give them “a spiritual interpretation of the
world-rending and home-smashing events that are taking place.”
Yet that very same question which was the all-important thing for
Abraham, to-day, nearly four thousand years later, is still the
question that goes to the root of the world’s spiritual problem.
There is nothing more important for the Christian to understand than
the distinction between law and grace. For to understand that is to
have in one’s heart the Gospel message. It is not too much to say that
the chief cause of powerlessness in the Christian church to-day, a
powerlessness that is made the more acutely evident by the world’s sore
travail, is that so many thousands of Christians are still living under
law.
They have not found the emancipation of grace.
They do not walk at liberty, which was purchased for us by Christ.
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