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Chosen no: R-664 d, from: 1884 Year. |
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Consecration.
Submission is a strong word, consecration still
stronger. Surrender is cessation of resistance, consecration a transfer of all
we are and have to Christ for active service. It covers person and property,
talents and opportunities, and accepts of Christ as leader, manager, friend,
and Saviour, present, active, and efficient in all the minutiae of life. There
are degrees of consecration, and even entire consecration is progressive, for
new interests, cares, burdens, capacities, and opportunities rise and await
disposal, and Christ is revealed in new relations, making new demands, offering
new privileges, and these await trustful acceptance, so that ever and anon the
proposition to devote all to Christ and receive all of Christ claims fresh
attention. Many commit spiritual interests to his care, and worry on alone with
temporal concerns; they trust Him to save their souls, but hesitate to ask His
aid in business; accept daily grace, but doubt respecting daily bread; rejoice
in Christ, as a Saviour, but fail to apprehend Him as a brother, a companion, a
present constant friend. Consecration is not absolutely perfect until the
fulness of our Lord is perceived and received, and the fulness of life is
devoted to Him, for every revelation of Christ calls for new devotion from us.
The consecration must be as broad as the apprehension, covering the fulness of
Christ and fulness of man.--Sel.
W.T. R-664d : page 8 - 1884r
