Our Consecration for God’s Eternal Purpose
Romans 12:1-2 urges us, “I exhort you therefore, brothers, through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect.”
Here we are urged to present ourselves a living sacrifice and to be transformed that we “may prove what the will of God is.” This will is for the church age now and for New Jerusalem. This proving requires God’s life and the operation of His life in us and also requires our cooperation in presenting ourselves and being transformed.
May God give us a vision of what He is doing and what He is after. May He show us the kind of people He desires to obtain and how precious is that which He has set His heart upon. If we see these things, we will cry out and say, “Oh, how small I am! How much attention I have paid to myself!” And we will say, “If God does not work in me, I will never be able to do His work. Only when God Himself moves in me with His mighty power can I go on well.”…Our hope is that God would give us this vision. Once we have seen it, we will give our whole being to it.*
* From chapter 5 of The Glorious Church by Watchman Nee, published and © by Living Stream Ministry, available at www.ministrybooks.org/ and www.livingstream.com/en/the-church/8012401-glorious-church-the.html.
