November 13
Daily Gleanings of the Saintly LifeSeventeenth Wednesday after Trinity
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling. Ephesians 4:4.
ONE is the Spirit of God, and in His love He willeth to envelop you wholly; He willeth day by day to prepare you wholly for that angel-life for which He created you. He willeth to enlighten your minds with His light; to kindle your hearts with His fire of love, your souls to "possess with His full flood of holiness;" to "sanctify you wholly," that "your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless, to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." Hold not back from Him part of the price of your Saviour's Blood. Divide not the mansion of your soul between God and the world. Narrow as we make our poor souls, each is not too narrow to contain God. It is too narrow to contain the world and God. It can contain Him Who containeth all things; but it cannot contain Him and wilfully retain any mind other than His, or exclude anything which is His, or of Him. If you can trust His love Who is the Uncreated Love of the Father and the Son, if you can trust His Light Who came to enlighten the regenerators of the world, if you can trust His faithfulness in Whom ye were "sealed to the day of redemption," yield yourselves to Him the Source of life, that by His gift partaking of His holiness, you may have even here the earnest and foretaste of His everlasting bliss.
What joys Thou dost to them impart Who serve Thee, Lord, with steadfast heart! They seek for Thee the cave unblest; Thou hid'st them in Thy fostering Breast.