It will have no reservations. Its submission is absolute. All the commandments will be the same as any commandment. There will be no attempt to strike balances by a great devotion to God's will in one direction as an apology and a justification for utter neglect of his will in another direction. Generosity in the home and selfishness in the pew; a spirit of worship in the sanctuary and a backbiting spirit not a rod away from the sanctuary,—these are forced marriages in any life, manufactured conjunctions and conditions. A true obedience is obedience all round. It may fail of doing God's will at many points, but at no point of all God's will will it fail to try. This is one infallible sign of true obedience.
Another is that it will never cry "Halt," never ask for rest, but will evidence itself in a steady and beautiful constancy. It has no vacations. It is a ship that never anchors, an institution that never suspends. When obedience pushes to the front with a great zeal for God in times of revival, but fails to get itself into the eye of God or man during the steady, plodding days of the church; or when obedience carries itself becomingly at home, but loses all possibility of recognition abroad; or when obedience manages itself fairly well on Sabbath, but gets sadly out of gear down through the week,—we may be sure it is too intermittent for any very favorable heavenly recognition.—Rev. Herrick Johnson.