The fair new petals must fall, and for no visible reason. No one seems enriched by the stripping.
And the first step into the realm of giving is a like surrender — not manward, but Godward: an utter yielding of our best. So long as our idea of surrender is limited to the renouncing of unlawful things, we have nver grasped its true meaning: that is not worthy of the name, for “no polluted thing” can be offered.
The life lost on the crosswas not a sinful one — the treasure poured forth there was God-given; a God-blessed treasure, lawful and righ to be kept: only that there was the life of the world at stake.
What kind of a God is it Who asks everything of us?
The same God “Who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all—how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things?” (Romans 8:32).
He gives all . He asks all.
Passion and Purity
