Fragment: Waiting for Perfection

“It is the general deepening of spiritual affection we need in the midst of us, more chastened hearts to give place and liberty, in the absence of nature, to the things of the kingdom of God. The lip watched, the thought watched, the pen watched, and all the instruments and agencies of nature watched, that the Spirit may find in each of us a freer vessel for Himself. But we may be sure we must wait for perfection. Had Lot walked separately, his daughters might have been wives of Abraham’s seed, instead of mothers of Ammonites and Moabites.”