Blundering and stumbling on in darkness'

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After the Lord has quickened our souls, for a 
time we often go blundering on, not knowing 
there is a Jesus. 

We think that the way of life is to . . .
keep God's commandments,
obey the law,
cleanse ourselves from sin,
reform our lives,
cultivate universal holiness in thought, word, 
and action—and so we go—blundering and 
stumbling on in darkness—and all the while 
never get a single step forward.

<p>But when the Lord has allowed us to weary ourselves
to find the door, and let us sink lower and lower into
the pit of guilt and ruin, from feeling that all our attempts
to extricate ourselves have only plunged us deeper and
deeper—and when the Spirit of God opens up to the
understanding and brings into the soul some spiritual
discovery of Jesus, and thus makes known that there
is a Saviour, a Mediator, and a way of escape—this is the
grand turning point in our lives, the first opening in the
valley of Achor (trouble) of the door of hope.

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