k. In redemption it prepares the way. Israel is separated
from Egypt by the blood of the Lamb and the guiding pillar of fire. In
its command, 'Come out and be separate,' it wakens man to action; in its
promises, 'I will be your God,' it stirs desire and strengthens faith.
In all the holy saints and servants of God, and at last in Him who was
holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, it points the way. In
the power of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Holiness, it seals the
separation by the Presence of the Indwelling God. This is indeed the
power of separation. _The separating power of the Presence of God_; this
it is we need to know. 'Wherein now shall it be known that I have found
grace in Thy sight, I and Thy people?' said Moses: 'is it not in _that
Thou goest with us_? _so_ shall we be _separated_, I and Thy people,
from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.' It is the
consciousness of God's Indwelling Presence, making and keeping us His
very own, that works the true separateness from the world and its
spirit, from ourselves and our own will. And it is as this separation is
accepted and prized and persevered in by us, that the holiness of God
will enter in and take possession. And we shall realize that to be the
Lord's property, a people of His own, is infinitely more than merely to
be accounted or acknowledged as His, that it means nothing less than
that God, in the power and indwelling of the Holy Ghost, fills our
being, our affections, and our will with His own life and holiness. He
separates us for Himself, and sanctifies us to be His dwelling. He comes
Himself to take personal possession by the indwelling of Christ in the
heart. And we are then truly separate, and kept separate, by the
presence of God within us.

BE YE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.

O my God! who hast separated me for Thyself, I beseech Thee, by Thy
mighty power, to make this Divine separation deed and truth to me. May
within, in the depths of my own spirit, and without, in all my
intercourse, the crown of separation of my God be upon me.

I pray Thee especially, O my God, to perfect in power the separation
from self! Let Thy Presence in the indwelling of my Lord Jesus be the
power that banishes self from the throne. I have turned from it with
abhorrence; oh, my Father, reveal Thy Son fully in me! it is His
enthronement in my heart can keep me as Thy own, as Himself takes the
place of myself.

And give me grace, Lord, in my ou