Seeking Holiness of Heart and Life
Sister L. J. Shaw writes from Strykersville, N. Y.: I feel encouraged and strengthened to press onward to know the Lord whom to know aright is life everlasting. Of late I have especially felt the importance of being sober and watching unto prayer, that I may be found without fault when the Lord shall come. I have felt to consecrate myself anew to the Lord and to put all upon the altar. By the assisting grace of God, I am determined to examine my heart that there be nothing there to drive out the sweet comforter, or hinder him from ruling and reigning there without a rival. Every desire of my heart is for a closer walk with God, a deeper work of grace, more zeal, more of that faith that works by love and purifies the heart. May the Lord help me to ever seek holiness of heart and life that will fit me for an entrance into his everlasting kingdom. I have no desire for the things of earth, its honor its pleasures or riches; only give me Jesus, and I ask no more. I love those who from the heart delight to obey God, and my heart longs for that day when Jesus shall come and take his ransomed ones home. May God help you and me to give all diligence to make our calling and election sure, and live out pure and undefiled religion before the world.