THIS WORLD A MORAL DESERT

THIS WORLD A MORAL DESERT

It may seem strange to say it, but as far as I know, not many are in the wilderness, that is, the world is not a wilderness to them; they are disappointed when they find Marah here, instead of expecting nothing to minister to the man after the flesh, of which we are freed in the death of Christ. Some think that afflictions and sorrow make this world a wilderness. I do not think that is true. I ^[p. 173] do not see that this world ever becomes a wilderness to any one until he is enjoying his freedom from sin and death in the life of Christ. I think that the great lack in souls is liberty, that is, freedom from the law of sin and death; they think they have this liberty by faith, no, it could not be but by the Spirit through whom I reap everlasting life. I cannot be free of death but in life. I have found a way out of death in Christ’s death, and hence in Christ’s life I am free of sin and death, but then it is by the Spirit of God. I believe that if I were enjoying Christ living in me, I should find that this world was a moral desert, nothing for me in it; but then I should live here in the grace of Christ. “The life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me” (Galatians 2: 20).