The New Life

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XXXIX
CONFORMITY TO JESUS.
" Foreordained to be conformed to the image of His Son."—
Rom. viii. 29.
" I have given you an example, that ye also should do as I
have done to you." John xiii. 15.
THE
Bible speaks of a twofold conformity, a twofold
likeness that we bear. We may be conformed
to the world or to Jesus. The one excludes
and drives out the other. Conformity to Jesus, where
it is sought, will be secretly prevented by conformity
to the world more than anything else. And conformity
to the world can be overcome by nothing but
conformity to Jesus.
of which you have
Young Christian, the new life
become partaker is the life of God in heaven. In
Christ that life is revealed and made visible. What
the workings and fruits of eternal life were in Jesus,
they shall also be in you : in His life you get to see
what eternal life will work in you. It cannot be
otherwise : if for this end you surrender yourself unreservedly
to Jesus and the dominion of eternal life,
it will bring forth in you a walk of wonderful conformity
to that of Jesus.
^ Matt. XX. 87, a8 ;
Luke vi. 40; John vi. 57 ; i John ii. 6, iv. 17.
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