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At the opening of the
new year, what lesson could be more important to us than this one,
that we are not our own, but belong to another; that we are not,
therefore, to seek to please ourselves, but to please Him; nor to
seek to serve self, but to serve Him; nor to seek to obey self-will,
but on the contrary His will? This means holiness in the most
absolute and comprehensive sense of the word, not only separation
from sin to righteousness, but separation from self (and the
world) to the will of God in
Christ. |