Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Our Need To Live A Life Of Consecration

In A Living Sacrifice by G.A. McCLaughlin the author wrote:
"Consecration is what we would do if it were the last day of our lives. If you knew positively that before tomorrow morning you would be in eternity, you would as a true Christian resign yourself wholly to the will of God. The language of your heart if not of your lips would be, 'Into thy hands, Lord, I resign my spirit. I let go my grasp upon everything in this world.' All those who get to heaven will have to be thus resigned to the will of God the last day of life. Now what a person ought to be the last day of life, he ought to be every day. Will any one then maintain that we ought to be anything else every day? Who knows that he will live all of any one day? If sudden death would be sudden glory, it will take place only in the experience of those wholly given to God. There is no excuse then for failing to be entirely consecrated to God every moment. Whatever we ought to be we can be. We ought to be wholly the Lord's every moment, and as we ought to be, we can be. Impossibilities are not required."

This thought, if remembered by the believer, would end most strife and confusion. The Christian's conscience is renewed and is very capable to guide us when the Scriptures do not speak directly to a subject. We are to live every day as our last; when we do so, there will be no regrets, no willful sin and no church splits. Let us endeavor to stay fully surrendered to Jesus Christ and serve Him completely as if our Judgment Day was tomorrow. When we do, the world will see the Gospel and that is generally preferable to hearing the Gospel. People hear the Gospel best when they see it operating in our lives.

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