uit in true holiness.

Being made free from sin, having become servants unto righteousness, ye
have your fruit unto holiness, and the end life everlasting. Freedom,
Righteousness, Holiness--these are the steps on the way to the coming
glory. The more deeply we enter by faith into our liberty, which we have
in Christ, the more joyfully and confidently we present our members to
God as instruments of righteousness. The God is the Father whose will we
delight to do, whose service is perfect liberty. The Redeemer is the
Master, to whom love binds us in willing obedience. The liberty is not
lawlessness: 'we are delivered from our enemies, that we may serve Him
in righteousness and holiness all the days of our life.'[12]

The liberty is the condition of the righteousness; and this again of the
holiness. The doing of God's will leads up into that fellowship, that
heart sympathy with God Himself, out of which comes that reflection of
the Divine Presence, which is Holiness. Being made free from sin, being
made the slaves of righteousness and of God, we have our fruit unto
holiness, and the end--the fruit of holiness becomes, when ripe, the
seed of--everlasting life.

BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.

Most glorious God! I pray Thee to open my eyes to this wonderful liberty
with which Christ has made me free. May I enter fully into Thy word,
that sin shall have no dominion over me because I am not under the law
but under grace. May I know my liberty which I have in Christ Jesus, and
stand fast in it.

Father! Thy service is perfect liberty: reveal this too to me. Thou art
the infinitely Free, and Thy will knows no limits but what its own
perfection has placed. And Thou invitest us into Thy will, that we may
be free as Thou art. O my God! show me the beauty of Thy will, as it
frees me from self and from sin, and let it be my only blessedness. Let
the service of righteousness so be a joy and a strength to me, having
its fruit unto sanctification, leading me into Thy Holiness.

Blessed Lord Jesus! my Deliverer and my Liberty, I belong to Thee. I
give myself to Thy will, to know no will but Thine. Master! Thee and
Thee alone would I serve. I have my liberty in Thee! be Thou my Keeper.
I cannot stand for one moment out of Thee. In Thee I can stand fast: in
Thee I put my trust.

Most Holy God! as Thy free, obedient, loving child, Thou wilt make me
holy. Amen.

1. Liberty is the power to carry out unhindered the impulse of our