rist
and self. Let us deny the unholy one, and give him to the death.

2. The steps in this path are these: First, the deliberate decision
that self shall be given up to the death; then, the surrender to
Christ crucified to make us partakers of His crucifixion; then,
'knowing that our old man is crucified,' the faith that says, 'I am
crucified with Christ;' and then, the power to live as a crucified
one, to glory in the cross of Christ.

3. This is God's way of holiness, a Divine mystery, which the Holy
Spirit alone can daily maintain in us. Blessed be God, it is the
life which a Christian can live, because Christ lives in us.

4. The central thought is: We are in Christ, who gave up His will
and did the will of God. By the Holy Spirit the mind that was in
Him is in us, the will of self is crucified, and we live in the
will of God.

[8] See Note D.

Eighteenth Day.

HOLY IN CHRIST.

Holiness and Faith.

'That they may receive remission of sins, and an inheritance among
them that are _sanctified by faith in me_.'--Acts xxvi. 18.

The more we study Scripture in the light of the Holy Spirit, or practise
the Christian life in His power, the deeper becomes our conviction of
the unique and central place faith has in God's plan of salvation. And
we learn, too, to see that it is meet and right that it should be so:
the very nature of things demands it. Because God is a Spiritual and
Invisible Being, every revelation of Himself, whether in His works, His
word, or His Son, calls for faith. Faith is the spiritual sense of the
soul, being to it what the senses are to the body; by it alone we enter
into communication and contact with God.

Faith is that meekness of soul which waits in stillness to hear, to
understand, to accept what God says; to receive, to retain, to possess
what God gives or works. By faith we allow, we welcome God Himself, the
Living Person, to enter in to make His abode with us, to become our
very life. However well we think we know it, we always have to learn the
truth afresh, for a deeper and fuller application of it, that in the
Christian life faith is the first thing, the one thing that pleases God,
and brings blessing to us. And because Holiness is God's highest glory,
and the highest blessing He has for us, it is especially in the life of
holiness that we need to live by faith alone.

Our Lord speaks here of 'the