The New Life by Andrew
Words of God for Young Disciples of Christ. The New Life aids Christians in their examination of the scripture and offers valuable information to believers who want to overcome sin and live the Christian life. While Murray's book is specifically designed for young converts, the text is useful to all Christians. Murray's chapters cover a variety of different topics that Christians, particularly those new to the faith, will find remarkably helpful. Murray discusses how Christians should approach the tasks of missionary work, prayer, confession, and baptism. The text also provides practical guidance regarding money, self-denial, discretion, and the temptations of worldly evil. New Life is a personal devotional, but it is also a resourceful tool for large congregations, small groups, and prayer meetings. The text is simply and easy to understand, and while each individual entry is rather short, Murray supplies substantial scriptural reference for further exploration.
Words of God for Young Disciples of Christ. The New Life aids Christians in their examination of the scripture and offers valuable information to believers who want to overcome sin and live the Christian life. While Murray's book is specifically designed for young converts, the text is useful to all Christians. Murray's chapters cover a variety of different topics that Christians, particularly those new to the faith, will find remarkably helpful. Murray discusses how Christians should approach the tasks of missionary work, prayer, confession, and baptism. The text also provides practical guidance regarding money, self-denial, discretion, and the temptations of worldly evil. New Life is a personal devotional, but it is also a resourceful tool for large congregations, small groups, and prayer meetings. The text is simply and easy to understand, and while each individual entry is rather short, Murray supplies substantial scriptural reference for further exploration.
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<strong>Andrew</strong> Murray on <strong>The</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>Life</strong>: Words of God for Young Disciples Text<br />
1Pe 1:8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye<br />
rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory<br />
Christians, who would walk according to the will of the Lord, hear what His word says: 'Finally, my<br />
brethren, rejoice in the Lord. Rejoice in the Lord always: again, I will say, Rejoice.' (Phil. 3:1; 4:3)<br />
Phil 3:1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed<br />
is not grievous, but for you it is safe.<br />
Phil 4:3 And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in<br />
the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book<br />
of life.<br />
In the Lord Jesus there is joy unspeakable, and full of glory: believing in Him, rejoice in this. Live the<br />
life of faith: that life is salvation and glorious joy. A heart that gives itself undividedly to follow Jesus,<br />
that lives <strong>by</strong> faith in Him and His love, shall have light and gladness. <strong>The</strong>refore, soul, only believe.<br />
Do not seek gladness; in that case you will not find it, because you are seeking feeling. But seek Jesus,<br />
follow Jesus, believe in Jesus, and gladness shall be added to you. 'Not seeing, but believing, rejoice<br />
with joy unspeakable and full of glory.'<br />
Lord Jesus, Thou are the Light of the world, the Effulgence of the unapproachable light, in whom we<br />
see the light of God. From Thy countenance radiates upon us the illumination of the knowledge of the<br />
love and glory of God. And thou art ours, our light and our salvation. O teach us to believe more<br />
firmly that with <strong>The</strong>e we can never walk in the darkness. Let gladness in <strong>The</strong>e be the proof that Thou<br />
art all to us, and our strength to do all that Thou wouldst have us do. Amen.<br />
1. <strong>The</strong> gladness that I have in anything is the measure of its worth in my eyes: the gladness in a<br />
person, the measure of my pleasure in him: the gladness in a work the measure of my pleasure in it.<br />
Gladness in God and His service is one of the surest tokens of healthy spiritual life.<br />
2. Gladness is hindered <strong>by</strong> ignorance, when we do not rightly understand God and His love and the<br />
blessedness of His service: <strong>by</strong> unbelief, when we still seek something in our own strength or feeling:<br />
<strong>by</strong> double-heartedness, when we are not willing to give up and lay aside everything for Jesus.<br />
3. Understand this saying: 'He that seeks gladness shall not find it; he that seeks the Lord and His will,<br />
shall find gladness unsought.' Think over this. He that seeks gladness as a thing of feeling, seeks<br />
himself: he would fain be happy: he will not find it. He that forgets himself to live in the Lord and His<br />
will, shall be taught of himself to rejoice in the Lord. It is God, God Himself, who is the God of the<br />
gladness of our rejoicing: seek God, and you have gladness. You have then simply to take and enjoy it<br />
<strong>by</strong> faith.<br />
4. To thank much for what God is and does, to believe much in what God says and will do, is the way<br />
to abiding gladness.<br />
5. '<strong>The</strong> light of the eyes gladdens the heart.' God has not intended that His children should walk in the<br />
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