The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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and pilgrims on the earth. Faith is such a power
that it rules
the whole life. It is the faith of a man that makes him forsake
his home for our goldfields. If he sees his way
to make a
fortune, and return to some great centre of attraction, it is
this faith maintains in him the spirit of a stranger and a pilgrim,
whose heart is in the home land. So these saints proved that
they were seeking after a country of their own, that they had
no mind to return to that from which they went out, they
desire a better country, that is, a heavenly. Faith made them
pilgrims and strangers, and secured them the divine blessing.
Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He
hath prepared for them a city.
Our great lesson is: Faith makes us pilgrims and strangers
here on earth. Such was Christ ;
such are we to be. The
moment we begin to press home the message to our own
heart, many questions arise. Will it not unfit us for daily life ?
What if all men were to live in this pilgrim spirit, as strangers
What would become of the development of
and sojourners?
the world ? Do we not see that in science and politics and
literature the men who give
themselves wholly to these things,
accomplish most? Those who come to a colony, and return
home to spend their money there, never take the interest those
do who give themselves to settle here. Is the true, intense,
pilgrim spirit, really a duty for all ? There is no more subtle
temptation than to wait with what God calls us to do till we
are first informed what others are to do, or what God is to do
with the rest of the world. We may safely leave to Him who
is ruler of all, the All-wise, what will come of obedience to His
commands. To every question, And wliat shall this man do?
Christ s answer is, What is that to thee ! Follow thou Me. If
we are disciples of Christ, each one of us must seek to have as