Be Perfect!?

Andrew Murray is one of my favorite authors.  I found this little treasure on Ebay.  As I've mentioned, I adore little books.  This one is part of a series of little books entitled, For the Quiet Hour.  I also adore ornamental covers.  Isn't it beautifully designed?

Be Perfect!

by

Rev. Andrew Murray

A Message from the Father in Heaven to His Children on Earth

1893

                       

Snippet from pp. 8-9

Perfection, as the highest aim of what God in His great power would do for us, is something so Divine, Spiritual, and Heavenly, that it is only the soul that yields itself very tenderly to the leading of the Holy Spirit that can hope to know its blessedness.

God hath wrought into every human heart a deep desire after perfection.  That desire is manifested in the admiration which all men have for excellence in the different objects or pursuits to which they attach value.  In the believer who yields himself wholly to God this desire fastens itself upon God's wonderful promises, and inspires a prayer like that of M'Cheyne: "Lord, make me as holy as a pardoned sinner can be made." The more we learn to long for this full conformity to God's will, for the consciousness that we are always pleasing to Him, we shall see that all this must come as a gift direct from heaven, as the full out-birth in us of the life of God, the inbreathing of the Holy Spirit of Jesus in those who are wholly yielded to His indwelling and rule.  Trusting ever less to men's thoughts and teachings, we shall retire much into the secret of God's presence, in the assurance that the more we see God's face, and hear the secret voice that comes direct from Him, "BE PERFECT", the more will the Holy Spirit dwelling within us unfold the heavenly fulness and power of the words, and make them, as God's words, bring and give and work the very thing He speaks.