I send and who will go for us?” He was then ready to answer, “ Here am I, send me.” His cleans ing preceded his call and ours must also if we are to be used of the Lord. As Dr. J. Stuart Holden so deftly puts it, “ The supreme purpose o f the Spirit’s indwelling is power for holy living out of which will flow a holy and an effective service. God’s order is life first, then labor, for what a man is, is more important than what a man says or does.” The world’s b ig word is get, the church’s big word is do, but God’s big word is be. “ Be ye holy.” “Be ye clean who bear the vessels of the Lord.” Cleanness, not clever ness, is the divine requisite. God wants to cleanse us for the same reason that we would cleanse a plate, to make it fit for use. Finally, our Lord said, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” Is this a promise for this life or is it a promise for the life to come? It is for both. Here and now the pure in heart see God as no one else can. This, however, is nothing compared with what is yet to be when we shall see Him face to face. Oh, what an hour that will be! Peter reveals the secret for ob taining this heart purity: “ God which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith” (Acts 15:8-9). The result, therefore, o f being filled with the Holy Spirit is puri ty of heart. Only His indwelling and working within can purify the heart. The fulness of the Spir it is not optional, but obligatory for daily, victorious living. 0 my readers! Do you yearn for a heart cleansed from selfish ambition, impure motives, un- christlike attitudes, yea, all that is foreign to the holy nature of God? Then draw nigh to God in believing prayer and humbly ask with the Psalmist David, “Create in me a clean heart, 0 God; and renew a right spirit within me.” ■n
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