"Since, then, you have been raised with Christ,
set your hearts on things above, where Christ
is seated at the right hand of God." Col. 3:1
How many there are even of those who desire
to fear God who are kept down by the world,
and to whom it has not lost its attractive power.
They are held fast, at least for a time, by worldly
business—or entangled by worldly people or worldly
engagements . . .
their partners in business or their partners in life;
their carnal relatives or their worldly children;
their numerous connections or their social habits;
their strong passions or their deep rooted prejudices;
all bind and fetter them down to earth.
There they grovel and lie amid "the smoke, and stir
of this dim spot which men call earth;" and so bound
are they with the cords of their sins, that they scarcely
seek deliverance from them—or ever desire to rise
beyond the mists and fogs of this dim spot into a
purer air—so as to breathe a heavenly atmosphere, and
rise up with Jesus from the grave of their corruptions.
But they shall never be buried in the grave of carnality
and worldliness.
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