The New Life

The New Life.
that He may enlighten your eyes, than this of the entire consecration
that God desires. In myself and others, I discover that
vdth our own thoughts we can form no conception how completely
God Himself would take possession of our will and live
in us. The Holy Spirit must reveal this in us. Only then indeed
does a conviction arise of how little we understand this.
"We are not to think : I see truly how entirely I must live for
God, but I cannot accomplish this : no, we are to say : I am still
blind, I have still no view of what is the glory of a life in which
God is all : if I should once see that, I would strongly desire and
believe that, not I, but God, should work it in me.
2. I,et there not be in your mind the least doubt as to whether
you have given yourself to God, to live wholly and only as His.
Express this conviction often before Him. Acknowledge that
you do not yet see or understand what it means, but abide by
this, that you desire it to be so. Reckon on the Holy Spirit to
seal you, to stamp you as God's entire possession. Even if you
stumble and discover self-will, hold fast your integrity, and
trustfully aver that the deep, firm choice of your heart is in all
things, in all things, to live to God.
3. Keep always before your eyes that the power to give all to
the Ivord, and to be all for the I^ord, arises from the fact that He
has given all for you, that He is all for you. Faith in what He
did for you is the power of what you do for Him.
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