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A picture of what every Christian life should be!

A writer tells of going with a group of visitors, down into a coal mine. On the side of the passageway grew a flower which was perfectly white.

The visitors were astonished, that there, where the coal dust was continually flying — this little flower would be so pure and white. A miner, who was with them, took a handful of black coal dust and threw it upon the plant, but not a particle adhered.

Every atom of the black dust rolled off. The visitors themselves repeated the experiment, but the coal dust would not cling.

There was a wonderful enamel on the folds of the white flower to which no speck could adhere. Living there amid clouds of black dust — nothing could stain its snowy white!

This is a picture of what every Christian life should be . We live in an evil world. We go among the ungodly continually in our daily walk and work. Unholy influences breathe all around us; but it is our mission to be pure amid all this vileness — undefiled, unspotted from the world.

If God can make a little flower, so that no black dust can stain its whiteness — can He not by His grace so transform your heart and life, that no sin can cling to you?

If God can keep a little flower stainless, as white as snow, amid clouds of black coal dust — can He not keep hearts of His people in like purity, in this world of sin?

"So that you may become blameless and pure , children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe!" Philippians 2:15

"Religion that is pure and unblemished in the sight of God the Father is this . . . to keep oneself unspotted and uncontaminated from the world!" James 1:27

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