do walk_, that ye would abound more and more." It is a walk in
heavenly love. "Walk in love, even as Christ loved you." It is a "walk
in the light, as He is in the light." It is a walk of faith, all its
power coming simply from God and Christ and the Holy Spirit, to the soul
turned away from the world. "We walk by faith, and not by sight."

How many believers there are who regard such a walk as an impossible
thing--so impossible that they do not feel it a sin that they "walk
otherwise"; and so they do not long for this walk in newness of life.
They have become so accustomed to the life of impotence, that the life
and walk in God's strength has little attraction. But some there are
with whom it is not thus. They do wonder if these words really mean what
they say, and if the wonderful life each one of them speaks of is simply
an unattainable ideal, or meant to be realised in flesh and blood. The
more they study them, the more they feel that they are spoken as for
daily life. And yet they appear too high. Oh that they would believe
that God sent his Almighty Son, and His Holy Spirit, indeed to bring us
and fit us for a life and walk from heaven beyond all that man could
dare to think or hope for.

HOW JESUS MAKES US WHOLE.

When a physician heals a patient, he acts on him from without, and does
something which is, if possible, ever after to render him independent of
his aid. He restores him to perfect health, and leaves him. With the
work of our Lord Jesus it is in both respects the very opposite. Jesus
works not from without, but from within, by entering Himself in the
power of His Spirit into our very life. And instead of, as in the bodily
healing, being rendered, if possible, independent of a physician for the
future, Christ's one purpose in healing is, as we said, the exact
opposite. His one condition of success, is to bring us into _such
dependence upon Himself as that we shall not be able one single moment
to do without Him_. Christ Jesus Himself is our life, in a sense that
many Christians have no conception of. The prevailing feeble and sickly
life is entirely owing to the lack of the apprehension of the Divine
truth, that as long as we expect Christ continually to do something for
us from heaven, in single acts of grace from time to time, and each time
trust Him to give us what will last a little while, we cannot be
restored to perfect health. But when once we see how there is to be
nothing of our own for a s