Daily Devotionals

Devotional: February 25th

THE CHRISTIAN’S CONSECRATION

Who then offereth willingly to consecrate himself this day unto the Lord - 1 Chronicles 29:5

All things serve the soul that serves Christ. All are yours if ye are His; and the great old words of that wondrous psalm which sets forth God’s purpose in making man so long unaccomplished, and, as it would seem in so many cases, hopelessly thwarted, will be fulfilled in us. " Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet." All things are beneath the feet of him who humbly lies at the feet of Jesus Christ, Obedience is sovereignty. Christ’s brethren are every one the children of a King. He who looses us from our sins makes us kings, and yet in all the dominion servants, for we become kings, not for ourselves, but "unto God."

A priest was consecrated by the anointing oil touching hand and foot and ear; nor was he set apart for his office without sacrifice. Christ’s priests are consecrated, not without the willing surrender of their whole being to His service; wherefore they are called upon to yield or present themselves to God, and their members as instruments of righteousness. But their true consecration comes from the touch of the great High Priest’s hand laid upon their spirits, and the anointing with that Spirit which dwelt in Him without measure, by whom He offered Himself to God, and which He gives to all that trust Him. For their sakes He consecrated Himself that they also might be consecrated. That Spirit dwelling in Him made Him the Messiah, the anointed of God, Prophet, Priest, and King; and that Spirit of Christ dwelling in His servants makes them His anointed, His prophets, kings, and priests. His anointing is a real, not a ceremonial, setting apart to God’s service, the impartation of a real inward fitness to be a holy priesthood.

So long as we are joined to Christ, we partake of His life, and our lives become music and praise. The electric current flows from Him through all souls that are "in Him," and they glow with fair colors, which they owe to their contact with Jesus. Interrupt the communication, and all is darkness. We have as much of God as we can hold. All Niagara may roar past a man’s door, but only as much as he diverts through his own sluice will drive his mill or quench his thirst. That grace is like the figures in the Eastern tales, that will creep into a narrow room no bigger than a nutshell, or will tower heaven high. Our spirits are like the magic tent whose walls expanded or contracted at the owner’s wish; we may enlarge them to enclose far more of the grace than we have ever possessed.

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