Could any one say, " I do not want to be like Christ?" If God comes in and says, " You are not like Christ, my son; there is evil, and you are passing it by." The very value God has for the eternal, life in you, will not let Him suffer you to go on in it. If He does, not come in, the life of a saint becomes unbearably wretched. You say that you are a son, a daughter of God-does God see you walking as such? Does He say of you, There is one of my children judging himself, and walking in the light?" What you need to have more vividly before you is, the reality of God seeing you on earth; let it be as one seeking to purge himself to walk with God in the light.
Should I like to be marked off as a "man of God?" That word is not more for Timothy than for me; Christ having set me in the light, and I seeing everything in myself that is inconsistent with Him, and saying, " these things will not do, I mean to be a man of God, judging them."