Two stages in the Christian life

Classic Quote on Rest and Activity

"There are [usually] two stages in the Christian life.  The one in which, after conversion, a believer seeks to work what God would have him do.  The second, in which, after many a painful failure, he ceases from his works, and enters the rest of God,  there to find the power for work in allowing the Father to work in him. "It is this rest from their own work which many Christians cannot understand.  They think of it as a state of passive and selfish enjoyment, of still contemplation which leads to the neglect of the duties of life,  and unfits for that watchfulness and warfare to which Scripture calls.  What an entire misunderstanding of God's call to rest! "Truly to rest in God is to yield oneself up to the highest activity.  We work, because He worketh in us both to will and to do (Phil. 2:13).  As Paul says of himself, 'I labor, striving according to his working who worketh in me with might' (Col. 1:29).  Entering the rest of God is the ceasing from self-effort,  and the yielding of oneself in the full surrender of faith to God's working."  - Andrew Murray

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Saved by Grace,

Andrew Cross

"Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. 

And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, 

but exhorting one another, 

and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

Hebrews 10:23-25

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