We do not live for self, nor even for self-salvation. Jesus Christ has become the Lord and Master of our spirit, and he has delivered us from the dominion of self and sin, and helped us to be obedient unto you. Now, henceforth, the strongest portion of our will is towards holiness.
Oh, that we could be perfectly holy! We sigh after it and cry after it: we think we could bear all trials, we feel persuaded we could give up all pleasures, if we might but win the pleasure of complete obedience to God. This, indeed, is the target towards which, like arrows shot from an archer’s bow, our lives are speeding. Though rough winds turn us aside, yet shall we strike the target by your grace.
Amen.
