The deeper Christian life comes to all of us when we surrender ourselves to God and His indwelling Spirit. It is as if there is not one of the principal temptations and failures of the Christian life that is not met here. May the blessed Lord give the blessing. May He teach us to study the mystery of the Vine in the spirit of worship, waiting for God's own teaching. Working For God 'God created us not to contemplate but to act.
True action is born of contemplation.
True contemplation, as a means to an end, always begets action. If sin had not entered there had never been a separation between knowing and doing. In nothing is the power of sin more clearly seen than this, that even in the believer there is such a gap between intellect and conduct. It is possible to delight in hearing, to be diligent in increasing our knowledge of God's word, to admire and approve the truth, even to be willing to do it, and yet to fail entirely in the actual performance. Andrew Murray was one of four children born to Pastor Andrew, Sr., and Maria Murray.