The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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this is what faith enables a man to do, this is the spiritual
discipline which makes faith strong. Faith looks at everything
in the light of eternity, judging of it as one will do when the
judgment day is past, and the glory begun ; everything
is seen
in its true value, and sacrifice and suffering and loss and trial
are welcomed as the training in which the glad decision, and the
firm will, and the strong character, and the victory of faith are
attained.
We have here the great cause of the weakness of faith in our
days. There is no separation from the world. So many Chris
tians seek to have as much of its pleasure and honour and riches
as they possibly can, consistently with their profession of religion.
In such an atmosphere faith is stifled. Many hardly believe, or
never remember, that the world, with its arts and culture and
prosperity, amid all its religious professions,
is still the same
world that rejected Christ. The disciple who would be as his
Lord,
not of the world, even as He was not of the world,"
seeks
to say with Paul,
Far be it from me to
glory, save in the cross
of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which tJie world hath been
crucified unto me, and I unto the world"
How wonderful is the place Moses occupies in the kingdom
of God. A pattern of Jesus as a prophet, as a mediator, as an
intercessor, in his meekness and his faithfulness, there are few
of God s servants that stand higher. And what fitted him to
take this place? Just this the choice to give up everything for
the reproach of Christ. Christian,
wouldst thou live in the favour
of God, and enter into His tent to meet Him as Moses did ?
wouldst thou be an instrument and a power of blessing, a man
strong in faith ? seek to be perfectly separate from the spirit of
the world, refuse its pleasure and honour and riches count the
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contempt of God s people and the reproach of Christ thy trea-