Walking this road of holiness isn’t easy. It isn’t something you can do without an effort or fleshly discomfort. If you are going to grow in holiness, and if you are going to mortify the deeds of the body, you will experience some suffering - the denying of your flesh.

Paul said "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth being compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us and for us and conferred on us!” (Romans 8:18, Amplified)

God wants to pour out His glory in us and upon us. He wants us to lay hands on the sick and see them recover. He wants us to cast out demons and raise the dead. He wants us to have so much of His power flowing through us that He can do signs and wonders through us. That should be our goal as sons and daughters of God.

But, He cannot fully do what He desires until we are living sanctified, holy lives before Him. He cannot do it until He has our whole heart, until we surrender everything in our lives to Him and yield ourselves in total obedience to the prompting of His Spirit.

He cannot pour out upon us the full measure of His glory until we submit ourselves completely and say as Jesus did: "I come to do thy will, O’ God” (Hebrews 10:9)

I believe God is going to have a people who will say this before Jesus returns. He is going to have people who so hunger and thirst after Him and His glory that they are willing to set aside anything in their lives that might hinder it. He is going to have people who have heard and heeded the words Jesus spoke to His first disciples: "Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.” (Mark 8:34-35)

I have determined in my heart that I am going to be one of those people. I have determined that I will walk this road of holiness day by day so that the glory of God can rest increasingly upon me. I have made up my mind that when I stand before Jesus, I will hear Him say, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant.”

I know it is coming, and because of that, I cannot give up. I cannot quit. I must keep on becoming progressively more and more separated unto the Lord.

I urge you to make that same commitment today. Don’t put it off another moment, because time is short. Jesus is coming soon. So bow your heart before the Lord and pray:

Lord Jesus, I yield everything I have and everything I am to you. I determine in my heart to set my affection on things above, and by the energizing power of your Spirit to keep my flesh crucified, laying aside every sin and weight that would hinder me in my walk with you. I set myself from this day on to do your will. I am asking you, Lord, to enlighten my heart, to speak to me and tell me what changes I need to make in my life. I determine now to hear and obey your voice. Amen! (Amen means "so be it.”)