Reviews for Kept for the Master's Use

The average rating for Kept for the Master's Use based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-12-11 00:00:00 Thomas Brown "Now ye have consecrated yourself unto the Lord, come near" (2 Chron. xxiv. 31) "'FOR THEE!' That is the beginning and the end of the whole matter of consecration...Out of the realized 'for me' grows the practical 'for Thee'! If the former is a living root, the latter will be its living fruit...Consecration is not so much a step as a course; not so much an act as a position to which a course of action inseparably belongs." The paradox of consecration is that is in one sense "an act of the moment, and in another the work of a lifetime...a point of rest, and yet a perpetual progression." Salvation is "analogous to the great washing by which we have part in Christ; consecration to "the repeated washing of the feet for which we need to be continually coming to him." Frances Ridley Havergal defined consecration as "the action of her will in surrendering herself completely to God." Offering our silver and gold is "the stepping stone to full consecration of what He has given us." "There is no consecration without separation...What has a consecrated life to do with being afraid...There is no bondage in consecration...We should suspect our consecration, and come afresh to our great Counselor about it, directly we have any sense of bondage." Consecration transfigures self denial into self delight. "God's will is delicious. He makes no mistakes." Frances Ridley Havergal was the Marie Kondo of the nineteenth century, "I wish my lady reader would just leave this book, now, and go straight upstairs and have a good rummage at once, and see what can be thus cleared out." So let us do our shopping as seeing Him who is invisible. "Next time any temptation of this sort approaches you, just look at your hand!...Which do you really care most about'a diamond on your finger or a star in the Redeemer's kingdom, shining forever and ever?" God calls us not to try but to trust. "Cease the effort and drop the burden, and now intrust your trust to Him!...Every 'kept from' should have its corresponding and still more blessed 'kept for'...All that is not 'kept for Jesus' is left for...Satan...Every trial of our faith is a trial of His faithfulness"'and He never fails! "Thank God, there is no 'if' on His side, rather 'as' He is able." God's weapons of war consist of trumpets, lamps, and empty pitchers. Our gifts may be limited, but His grace is not. "The Lord makes the most of whatever is unreservedly surrendered to Him." When we credit our gifts, God is defrauded of His glory. "Only in proportion as our will is surrendered are we able to discern the splendor of God's will."Justice and mercy appear divided by "the strange distortions of the dark, false glass of sin...but both are but emanations of God's holy love." "It is the great magnet of His love which alone can draw any heart to Him...And this is the way the Master keeps the lips of His servants, by so filling their hearts with His love that the outflow cannot be unloving, by so filling their thoughts that the utterances cannot be un-Christlike...Lord, take my lips, and speak through them; take my mind, and think through it; take my heart, and set it on fire."

Review # 2 was written on 2017-11-17 00:00:00 Peter A Handley A reflection on how every part of our lives and bodies can be surrendered to Christ for his use. Not recommended for Church folk who want to go halfsies with Christ.