"Whenever the Holy Ghost sees a chance of glorifying Jesus, He will take your heart, your nerves, your whole personality, and simply make you blaze and glow with devotion to Jesus Christ" -- Oswald.
My whole heart, my nerves, my personality blazing and glowing. It sounds painful, and it sounds right. It sounds like a woman who knows the purpose of her being and has passionately relinquished all right to herself to her loving Savior. It sounds like the first question in the Heidelberg Catechism:
Q. What is your only comfort in life and in death?
A. That I am not my own, but belong -- body and soul, in life and in death -- to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil. He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father in heaven: in fact, all things must work together for my salvation. Because I belong to him, Christ, by his Holy Spirit, assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him.
May it be so in me today. Amen.
Amen!
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