UD 11:9{CT 5:31{When we came to Him first of all, with the intolerable burden of our sins, there was no help for it but to come with them to Him, and take His word for it that He would not and did not cast us out. And so coming, so believing, we found rest to our souls; we found that His word was true, and that His taking away our sins was a reality.
Some give their lives to Him then and there, and go forth to live henceforth not at all unto themselves, but unto Him who died for them. This is as it should be, for conversion and consecration ought to be simultaneous. But practically it is not very often so, except with those in whom the bringing out of darkness into marvelous light has been sudden and dazzling and full of deepest contrasts. More frequently the work resembles the case of the Hebrew servant described in Ex. 21, who, after six years' experience of a good master's service, dedicates himself voluntarily, unreservedly, and irrevocably to it, saying, "I love my master; I will not go out free"; the master then accepting and sealing him to a lifelong service, free in law yet bound in love. This seems to be a figure of later consecration founded on experience and love.
I love, I love my Master, I will not go out free,
For He is my Redeemer, He paid the price for me.
I would not leave His service, it is so sweet and blest;
And in the weariest moments, He gives the truest rest.
For He hath met my longing with word of golden tone,
That I shall serve forever Himself, Himself, alone.