The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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and the honour which the world offers.
With many Christians, if
their conversion ever was an entering through a strait gate, their
life since never was, in any sense, a laying aside of everything that
might hinder their spiritual growth.
They never heeded the word:
He that forsaketJi not all that he hatJi cannot be My disciple.
But this is what we are called to as indispensable
:
Laying aside
every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us.
Yes, laying aside every sin however little it seems, however
much it be our special weakness it
may not be spared. Sin
must be laid aside,
if we are to run the race. It is a race for
holiness and perfection, for the will of God and His favour ;
how could we dream of running the race without laying aside
the sin which doth so easily beset us.
Therefore, let us run the race set before A us.
race means,
this is our third lesson, concentration of purpose and will,
strenuous and determined effort.
is on the course gives himself wholly to one thing
It means that a man while he
running with
all his might. It means that for the time being he forgets every
thing for the all-absorbing desire to gain the prize. The
Christian course means this all through life a whole-hearted
:
surrender of oneself, to put aside everything for the sake of God
and His favour. The men who enter the course are separated
from the crowd of idle spectators : they each of them can say,
One thing I do they run.
Let us run with patience the race. Ye were running well,
zvho did hinder you ? This was as true of the Hebrews as of
the Galatians :
many,
many had gone back. Alas, alas, is
it not true of multitudes of Christians in our days? They
began well, everything was so hopeful ;
but it would be utterly
untrue to say of them to-day that they are running a race for
eternal life. And there is no way for us, and those for whom