The New Life

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The New lyife.
tumility is commended to
Christians as one of the
first virtues. 1 It is the feature in the image of Jesus
which He seeks chiefly to impress on His disciples.
His whole incarnation and redemption has its roots
in His humiliation.^
Take singly some of these words of God from time
to time and lay them up in your heart. The tree of
life yields many different kinds of seed—the seed also
of the heavenly plant, lowliness. The seeds are the
words of God. Carry them in your heart : they shall
shoot up and yield fruit.
Consider, moreover, how lovely, how becoming,
how well-pleasing to God, lowliness is. As man,
created for the honor of God, you find it befitting
you.* As a sinner, deeply unworthy, you have nothing
more to urge against it.^ As a redeemed soul,
who knows that only through the death of the natural
/ does the way to the new life lie, you find it indispensable."'
As a child of the Father, overwhelmed
with His love, you must consider it above all else.'^
But here, as everywhere in the life of grace, let
faith be the chief thing. Believe in the power of the
eternal life that works in you. Believe in the power
of Jesus, who is your life. Believe in the power of
1 Rom. xii. 3, i6 ; i Cor. xiii. 4 ; Gal. v. 22, 26 ; Kph. iv. 2 ; Phil,
ii. 3 ;
Col. ii. 13.
2 Matt. XX. 26, 28 ;
I,uke xxii. 27 ;
John xiii. 14, 15 ; Phil. ii. 7, 8.
3 I Thess. ii. 13 ;
Heb. iv. 12 ;
Jas. i. 21.
* Gen. i. 27 ; 1 Cor. xi. 7.
5 Job. xi. 6 ; Isa. vi. 5 ; Luke v. 8.
« Rom. vii. 18 ; i Cor. xv. 9, 10 ; Gal. II. 20.
7 Gen. xxxii. 10 ; 2 Sam. vii. 18 ; i Pet v. 11.
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