Consecration

      Alonzo T. Jones

The Present Truth : January 26, 1893

Consecration is the constant recognition of the fact that we are the Lord’s and not our own. He, who learns that this is the great fact and lives in the constant presence and recognition of it, is consecrated, and this is consecration.

This is not a hard thing to do and for the Lord has fixed it. People make it hard by thinking it to be something that it is not, and trying to accomplish it in a way that is not the Lord’s. In truth, going about it in other than the Lord’s way one cannot help but to miss it.

It is a fact that we are the Lord’s. For it is written: “you were bought at a price.” 1 Corinthians 6.20. And the price is “the precious blood of Christ.” 1 Peter 1.19. For He “gave Himself for us.” Titus 2.14

This “price” was paid for every soul that ever was, is now, or ever will be on earth; for “He died for all.” Therefore it is written: “You are not your own; for you were bought at a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” 1 Corinthians 6.19, 20

He not only gave Himself for us, but for all there is of us—yes, even for our sins. For again it is written that He “gave Himself for our sins.” Galatians 1.4. And He did so “that He might deliver us from this present evil world” and “purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works” to present us “faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy” (Jude 24); “that He might bring us to God.” 1 Peter 3.18

He so loved us that He wants to save us. He will save us from our sins, but not in them. And as our whole self is sin and sin only, when He bought us, He bought our sins as well. So in giving Himself for us, He gave Himself also for our sins. Sin and all, we are His, for He bought us at a great price.