Oct 28.97: Light For The Day - "Be Wholly God's"

"But as he who called you is holy, be holy
yourselves in all your conduct; since it is
written, "You shall be holy, for I am holy." 

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"Be Wholly God's"

Every child of God ought to be able to look the
devil squarely in the face and say: "You have
nothing in me -- no territory over which I
acknowledge your dominion -- none over my
tongue, none over my temper, none over my will.
You do not control me by worldliness. I am the
Lord property. Begone, thou seducer and tempter!" 

Be sure that if you are after ambition, after position,
after power, after influence among men, after human
applause, the devil has territory in you; but after
you study to show yourself approved unto God, and
don't care whether you are in a low, or up in a high,
position, the devil loses hold on you.

Be Wholly God's -- that's all; wholly God's. On that
holiness depends; on that service depends.

-- Arthur T. Pierson

To grow a little wiser day by day,
To keep my inner life both clean and strong,
To free my life from guile, my heart from wrong,
To shut the door on hate and scorn and pride,
To open up to love the window wide,
To meet with cheerful heart what comes to me,
To turn life's discords into harmony.
To share some weary worker's heavy load,
To point some straying comrade to the road,
To know that what I have is not my own,
To feel that I am never quite alone --

This would I pray from day to day,
For then I know my file would flow
in peace until it be God's will I go.
-- Selected
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"Keep my decrees and follow them. I am the Lord,
who makes you holy." -- Leviticus 20:8 (NIV)

"Do two walk together unless they have agreed
to do so." -- Amos 3:3 (NIV)
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