True religion is intensely practical. Only, so far as it dominates one's life, is it real. We must live the Word of God a place in the hard, dusty paths of our earthly toil and struggle. We must get it written on the walls of our hearts! We must bring the Golden Rule--into our daily, actual life.
We are too apt to imagine that holiness consists in mere good feeling toward God. It does not! It consists in obedience in heart and life to the divine requirements. To be holy is, first, to be set apart for God and devoted to God's service, and it necessarily follows that we must live for God.
Our hands are God's, and can fitly be used only in doing His work; our feet are God's, and are to be employed only in walking in His ways and running His errands; our lips are God's, and should speak words only that honor Him and bless others; our hearts are God's, and must not be profaned by thoughts and affections that are not pure.
True holiness is no vague sentiment--it is intensely practical. It is nothing less than the bringing of every thought and feeling and act into obedience to Christ! We are quite in danger of leaving out the element of obedience in our conception of Christian living. If we do this, our religion loses its strength and grandeur and becomes weak, nerveless and forceless.
Our Christianity must touch every part of our life and transform it all into the beauty of holiness.
- J. R. Miller
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