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We rejoice in all that God has done for us in the past. We are grateful for the blessings we have received. But we are only on the edge of the spiritual possibilities that are within our reach. We are in danger of sitting down in a sort of quiet content, as if there were no farther heights, to be reached. “Ye have been going about this mountain long enough: turn you northward.” Northward is toward new and greater things, larger spiritual good, more abundant life. It means something intensely practical and real. It is a call to better life. We must be better men, better women, better Christians. We must be holier. The abundant life must be pure. One man wrote on a New Year’s eve, that he wanted to be a cleaner man in the new year than ever before. “How I long to be clean all through! What a blessed life that must be!” We need all and always to seek the same cleanness. It must begin within. “Blessed are the pure in heart.”
A little story tells of a man who was washing a large plate glass in a show window. There was one soiled spot on the glass which defied all his efforts to cleanse it. After a long and hard rubbing at it, with soap and water, the spot still remained, and then the man discovered that the spot was on the inside of the glass. There are many people who are trying to cleanse their lives from stains by washing the outside. They cut off evil habits and cultivate the moralities, so that their conduct and character shall appear white. Still they find spots and flaws which they cannot remove. The trouble is within. Their hearts are not clean, and God desires truth in the inward parts.
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