Your ShelfYour Projects

Complete Consecration

50%

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Jan 12, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 2.

Read the full edition

Complete Consecration

THERE is nothing extreme or unnatural in the experience of fully yielding all the powers of our being to the service of the Lord. It simply means a life under the control of the Spirit of the Lord in all things, but the Spirit of the Lord will not lead anybody to do foolish or fanatical things. Where, then, is the danger? It is in substituting our own ideas and impressions for the leading of the Spirit of God. Here is the caution: “Beware how you follow impulse, calling it the Holy Spirit. Some are in danger in this respect.” The guidance of the Spirit will never lead us to go contrary to the plain teaching of the Word of God or the example of Jesus. A life of complete consecration to God will be in perfect harmony with both, and will reveal those fruits of the Spirit which glorify God. There is an urgent call at this time for a new and unreserved consecration to the service of God, and that means a service in harmony with God’s plan for this time. This will lead us to co-operate with our Master in doing the very thing which he desires to have done now. There are a thousand things which might seem to us very necessary to be done, and we might fully occupy ourselves with them, and yet utterly fail of meeting the mind of God as to consecrated and intelligent service for him. The special work to be done now is to prepare a people for the coming of the Lord by proclaiming God’s message to this generation. A complete consecration to God on the part of this people now will be revealed in giving that message. Thus will we be laborers together with God.