If you are not walking in practical holiness, you will be made to find it out in chastening. He cannot separate between the Head and the members, but He looks at our ways. The Lord is sanctifying us, body, soul, and spirit. What! is this corruptible body to be put apart for God? Yes! whether I eat or drink, or, whatever I do, all is to be for the glory of Christ. Are all the affections of my heart, all the thoughts of my mind, to be put apart? Yes; as a member of Christ, I have to walk in childlike faith, most watchful not to commit Christ to anything unlike Himself, because of being in vital union with Him. Ι may be but a hair of the head, the tiniest member, but God has blessed me with all spiritual blessings in Him; and being so blest, ought I not to walk accordingly—holy and without blame before Him in love?
G.V.W.