The New Life

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The New I^ife.
Jesus as Him to whom he by the grace of God
Almighty can, in his measure, be really comformable.
He must believe that the same Spirit that was in
Jesus is also in him ; that the same Father that led
and strengthened Jesus also watches over him ; that
the same Jesus that lived on earth now lives in him
He must cherish the strong assurance that this Three-
One God is at work in changing him into the image
of the Son. 1
He that believes this shall receive it. It will not
be without much prayer : it will require especially
converse, ceaseless intercourse with God and Jesus,
Yet he that desires it and is willing to give time and
sacrifice to it, certainly receives it.
Son of God, Effulgence of the glory of God, the
very image of His substance, I must be changed into
Thine image. In Thee I see the image and the likeness
of God in which we are created, in which we
are by Thee created anew. Lord Jesus, let conformity
to Thee be the one desire, the one hope of my souL
Amen.
I. Conformity to Jesus : we think that we understand fir"
word : but how little do we comprehend that God really expects
we should live even as Jesus. It requires much time with Him,
in prayer and pondering of his example, at all rightly to conceive
it. The writer of these precepts has written a book on
this theme, has often spoken of it, and yet he sometimes feels
as if he must cry out : Is it really true ? Has God indeed called
us to live even as Jesus ?
1 John xiv. 19, xvii. 19 ; Rom. viii. 2 ; 2 Cor. iii. 18 ;
Eph. i. 19, 20.
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