The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

Cbe tbolicst of 2UI 485
CXIV.
FAINT NOT.
XII. 3. For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners
against themselves, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.
4. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin:
sons,
5. And ye have forgotten the exhortation, which reasoneth with you as with
My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lcrd,
Nor faint when thou art reproved of him ;
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,
And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
IT is ever still the danger of discouragement and backsliding
that the writer seeks to avert. In these verses we find the words,
Faint not, twice used, and twice the way is pointed out to be
kept from it. The first time the word is used in connection
with the considering of Jesus, our Example and Leader. The
second time, with the teaching, that it is God from whom all
affliction comes. In affliction, look to Jesus as our Forerunner,
who was Himself so tried ;
to God as our Father, who has
appointed the trial, as the safeguard against fainting.
For consider Him that hath endured such gainsaying of
sinners against Himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting
your souls. We have previously had the injunction (iii. i):
Consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our profession
that pointed to the work He did for us. Here it is : Consider
Him in His sufferance and patient endurance. The thought
that He suffered like you, that you are suffering
in
like Him, will