In our prayer for revival we must test ourselves – Andrew Murray

Unless in our prayer for revival we are ready to test the church, and to test ourselves, by this touchstone, our prayer will be in vain. With Christ his not being of the world meant everything. He proved it by separating himself from its sin, by exposing and reproving it, by accepting the cross it prepared for him as the proof of the distance between it and him. The cross revealed the spirit of the world, its irreconcilable enmity to him. It revealed the Spirit of Christ — his refusal of its friendship, his endurance of its hate and rejection. The cross is the everlasting symbol of the relation between Christ and the unregenerate world. What is called folly, he counted wisdom. What it called weakness, he proved to be strength. What it despised, he gloried in.

(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 30).

Andrew Murray