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Familiarity
Familiarity with an object has a tendency to lessen
interest and delight in the object. It requires but little
effort to have interest in new things, but it does require
effort to keep up the interest as the object grows older.
It is possible to lose your love to God when very busy
about the work of God. It is easier to keep up the works
than it is to keep up the love. Saints at Ephesus lost
love to God yet maintained the works. You can become so
familiar with preaching that it becomes more of an
occupation than something done in intense love to Christ.
You can keep on working for souls long after you have lost
heart burden for souls. It is not always those who work
the hardest that love God most. One of the most subtle and
dangerous things in the Christian experience is the
deadening effect of familiarity. People can word a
beautiful testimony for years on a past experience. Men
practice the art of talking beautifully about holy things
after they have lost the art of living holy. You can be
very familiar with the way of truth, and yet having lost
the way out of your soul. The only possible way to keep
from being deadened by familiarity with spiritual things
is to keep gaining greater spiritual things.
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