To be near unto God - pagina 179

when

of intentions and cherish holiest purposes, at the time of trial we are bound to fail?

And

this

best

mood must be

resisted.

This

is

debase-

ment

It not only unfits one for the of self. battle of life, but severs the vital nerve which binds one to his Divme ideal. Better faint ten times and suffer the punishment of God's judgment in the conscience than to have part with the world in everyday sin without an accusing conscience. This inner willingness of heart to will what God wills has supreme worth, even though as yet strength fails to carry it into effect. For it is the development of the life of God's child. It is coming into closer fellowship with God. It is It is a the increase in the knowledge of God. discipline which keeps the conscience tender, and the ideal bright, and makes progress in the way. Of course the progress is greater when willingness of heart is carried out in the deed, until it becomes a part of life. For then the moral power of faith operates, the nature of the hero awakens

and the power of the Almighty, which overcomes the world, becomes manifest in us. But it does not begin with this. It begins with the transposing of the willingness in the heart. This is followed by the sad and painful experience that the willingness is there, but that the doing still tarries. In that stadium the strong and penetrating working of the conscience performs wonders, for it brings us at length into the final stadium, v.here from bare willingness what God wills we are brought to the doing of his good pleasure.

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