To be near unto God - pagina 523

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Should we then give up the struggle against the sin that tempts us most, that we might resist the numerous lesser sins? By no means. He who leaves the main entrance to a fortress unprotected merely to repel assaults at the side entrances, will, when presently attacked from behind, have to give up all further resistance. No, what you should do, is, with an eye open to the moral danger that threatens, by a far more serious exertion of strength, the sooner the better to make an end of the struggle against your chief sin, not by giving it free play, but by breaking with it once and for all. Thus alone will 3^ou obtain a free hand, in the Lord's strength, to bring spiritual harmony That this is in the further discords of the soul. possible is evident from the witness borne by many a disciplined child of God, who at length has put on the whole armor of God, and has triumphed The mistake is, that one makes his gloriously. leading sin his bosom sin, and then views it as an evil which by some fatality he is bound to The enigma of our human resist until death. heart is, that we resist our main sin most continuously and at the same time cozen it. duality within, in which, through lack of heroic action, we accustom ourselves to what is deemed to be a necessity of life. Then it is not the spirit within us, which, united with the Spirit of God, fights in our soul the fight of God against sin, for the sake of God, but a ience. This evil, however, must be broken. It must become a life-struggle against every sin and against the sinful nature, for the sake of the

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