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 />
In this parable of the seed that springs up of itself, and becomes great and bears fruit, the Lord teaches<br />
us two of the most important lessons on the increase of the spiritual life. <strong>The</strong> one is that of its<br />
self-sufficiency, the other that of its gradualness.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first lesson is for those that ask what they are to do in order to grow and advance more in grace.<br />
As the Lord said of the body: 'Which of you <strong>by</strong> being anxious can add one cubit unto his stature?<br />
consider the lilies of the field how they grow;' so He says to us here that we can do nothing, and need<br />
to do nothing, to make the spiritual life grow. (Matt. 6:25,27,28)<br />
Mt 6:25 <strong>The</strong>refore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye<br />
shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the<br />
body than raiment?<br />
Mt 6:27 Which of you <strong>by</strong> taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?<br />
Mt 6:28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow;<br />
they toil not, neither do they spin<br />
Do you not see how, while man slept, the seed sprang up and became high, he knew not how, and how<br />
the earth brought forth fruit of itself? When man has once sowed, he must reckon that God cares for<br />
the growth: he has not to care: he must trust and rest. And must man then do nothing? He can do<br />
nothing: it is from within that the power of life must come: from the life, from the Spirit implanted in<br />
him. To the growth itself he can contribute nothing: it shall be given him to grow. (Ps. 92:14; Gal.<br />
2:20; Col. 3:3)<br />
Ps 92:14 <strong>The</strong>y shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;<br />
Ga 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the<br />
life which I now live in the flesh I live <strong>by</strong> the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave<br />
himself for me.<br />
Col 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.<br />
All that he can do is to let the life grow. All that can hinder the life, he must take away and keep away.<br />
If there are thorns and thistles that take away place and power in the soil which the plant should have,<br />
he can take them away. (Jer. 4:13; Matt. 13:22,23)<br />
Jer 4:13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses<br />
are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.<br />
Mt 13:22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care<br />
of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.<br />
Mt 13:23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and<br />
understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty,<br />
some thirty.<br />
<strong>The</strong> plant must have its place in the earth alone and undivided. For this the husbandman can care: then<br />
it grows further of itself. So must the Christian take away what can hinder the growth of the new life:<br />
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