“Be diligent to grow in grace. A growing tree is a living tree.
When a tree ceases to grow, it is in danger of being blown down. So with a believer. Get more knowledge, faith, love.
Seek daily likeness to Jesus. We are not justified by our sanctification.
And yet without sanctification we cannot have abiding peace or communion.
We are justified entirely by the doing and dying of the Lord Jesus.
And yet, when justified, He will change us into His image so that the longer we are justified we should be the more sanctified.
Study holiness, if you would have peace now, and be found of Christ in peace.
The holiest believers are evermore the happiest.”
–Robert Murray M’Cheyne, The Works of the Late Rev. Robert Murray M’Cheyne, vol. 2 (New York: Robert Carter, 1847), 2: 462.
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