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The whole of society around us, as far as it is not very definitely ruled by the Spirit of God, constitutes an environment, an atmosphere from which, at every pore, we breathe in the infection of a life that is estranged from God. And yet, because it is a secret, hidden spirit; because it has accommodated itself to the teaching and the worship of Christ, we may be utterly unconscious of the evil that is hindering and weakening our spiritual life.
It is to conquer and cast out and entirely dispossess the spirit of this world that the Spirit of God is sent into the hearts of God’s children. With Pentecost the kingdom of God came in power, the kingdom of heaven was begun on earth. Men and women were to live an unworldly, an other-worldly, a heavenly life, superior to all the good the world can offer, and to all the evil it can threaten, free from all its modes of thought and motives of action.
The altogether, even externally, unworldly life of Christ was to perpetuate itself in the inner circle of his chosen disciples and friends. They were to be so wholly given up to fellowship with the heavenly world, to wait and labour so patiently and perseveringly to receive the light and leading, the joy and strength their Lord could give, that they might be able to communicate to their brethren about that heavenly life and power which would enable them in their earthly calling to live the unworldly life.
(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 27) |
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