If Ye Obey

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The setting of the less finite into the complete infinite nature Christ calls by various names. Sometimes it is faith: you must believe in God. Sometimes it is affection: you must love God. Always what it means is the same thing—you must belong to God. Then His life shall be your life. “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10). Sometimes He seems to gather up His fullest declaration of this vital connection of man with God and call it in one mighty word, Obedience. You must obey God, and so live by Him.
—Phillips Brooks

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