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

by Andrew Murray

If anything can make us hate and detest sin, it is considering Christ on the cross. Come once again with me to the judgment seat of the Great Day, and see the bottomless pit of darkness wherein countless souls will be plunged under the sentence, Depart from me, ye cursed, into eternal fire (Matthew 25:41). Oh, will not these words soften our hearts and fill us with a never-to-be-forgotten horror of sin, so that we may hate it with a perfect hatred? Is there anything else that can help us to understand what sin is? Yes, there is. Turn your eyes inward, behold your own heart, and see sin there.