one who is ready to forsake all and to follow Him." If Christ is to give
Himself wholly to me, He must know that He has me wholly for Himself;
and I trust God will give grace that these words spoken about the
consecration and the surrender, not only of all evil, but of many lawful
things, and even, if necessary, of life itself, may lead us to
understand what the demand is that Jesus makes upon us.

The motto of the Cape General Mission is,

"_God first._"

In one sense that is a beautiful motto, and yet I am not always
satisfied with it, because it is a motto that is often misunderstood.
God first may mean "I" second, something else third, and something else
fourth. God is thus first in order, but still God becomes one of a
series of powers, and that is not the place God wants. The meaning of
the words, "God first" is really "God all; God everything;" and that is
what Christ wants. To be willing to give up everything, to submit to
Christ to teach him what to say and what to do, is the first mark of the
man to whom Christ will come. Are you not ready to take this step and
say: "Jesus! I do give up everything; I have given up everything; reveal
Thyself."

Oh, brother! oh, sister! do not hesitate. Speak it out in your heart,
and let this be the time in which a new sacrifice shall be laid at the
feet of the blessed Lamb of God.

There is a second thought. There is first the idea of having forsaken
all to follow Him; of having given up everything in obedience to Him,
and living just a life of simple love and obedience. But there is a
second thing needed in the man who is to have this full revelation of
Christ. He must be

_Convicted of his unbelief._

"Oh! fools, and slow of heart to believe what the prophets have said."
Oh! brother, sister, if we could have a sight of the amount of unbelief
in the hearts of God's children, barring the door and closing the heart
against Christ, how we should stand astonished and ashamed! When there
is not unbelief but where there is faith, Christ cannot help coming in.
He cannot help coming where there is a living faith, a full faith. The
heart is opened, the heart is prepared; and as naturally as water runs
into a hollow place, so naturally Christ must come into a heart that is
full of faith. What is the hindrance with some earnest souls, who say:
"I have given myself up to the Lord Jesus. I have done it often, and by
His grace I am doing it every day, and God knows how earnestly