The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer

by Andrew Murray

It was because Christ humbled Himself and became obedient unto death – the death on the cross – that God so highly exalted Him. Paul, in this connection, exhorts us, Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus (Philippians 2:5). We see, above everything else, that the obedience of Christ, which was so pleasing to God, must really become the characteristic of our nature and of our entire walk. Just as a servant knows that he must first obey his master in all things, so the surrender to a complete and unquestionable obedience must become the essential characteristic of our lives. How little this is understood by Christians! How many there are who allow themselves to be misled, and who rest satisfied with the thought that sin is a necessity, that one must sin every day!