Faith's Checkbook (By: C.H. Spurgeon)

February 25, 2011
                                                            Set Apart

              "You shall be named the priests of the Lord."
                                                             ~ Isaiah 61:6

  "This literal promise to Israel belongs spiritually to the seed after the Spirit, namely, to all believers. If we live up to our privileges, we shall live unto God so clearly and distinctly, that men shall see that we are set apart for holy service and shall name us the priests of the Lord. We may work or trade, as others do, and yet we may be solely and wholly the ministering servants of God.

Just as Jesus Christ ministered to the people, so must we do as well. It is our
It is our duty as the children of God to be like priests & go into the world
& give the Living Word of God to the people who do not know about Him, or
those who don't have a car or who is ill & can't leave their own home.

  This being our one aim, we may leave distracting concerns to those who have no higher calling. They may manage politics, puzzle out financial problems, and discuss science;but we will give ourselves unto such service as becomes those who, like the Lord Jesus, are ordained to a perpetual priesthood.
  Accepting this honorable promise as involving a sacred duty, let us put on the vestments of holiness, and minister before the Lord all day long." (By: Charles H. Spurgeon ~ One Minute Devotions)