The Church: Our Sickly Body

"Bow before God in humiliation, and in that humiliation confess before Him the state of the whole Church. No words can tell the sad state of the Church of Christ on earth. Just think of the Christians around you. So little power, so little devotion or consecration to God, so little conception of the truth that a Christian is a man utterly surrendered to God's will! Of, we need to confess the sins of God's people around us, and to humble ourselves. We are members of that sickly body, and the sickliness of the body will hinder us, and break us down, unless we come to God and in confession separate ourselves from partnership with worldliness. What coldness there will be towards each other unless we give up ourselves to be entirely and wholly for God. " - - Andrew Murray (Absolute Surrender)