April 16
ALL TURNED TO HOLINESS
"In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS
UNTO THE LORD" Zech. 14:20
Happy day when all things shall be consecrated, and the horses'
bells shall ring out holiness to the Lord! That day has come to me. Do
I not make all things holy to God? These garments, when I put them on
or take them off, shall they not remind me of the righteousness of
Christ Jesus, my Lord? Shall not my work be done as unto the Lord? Oh,
that today my clothes may be vestments, my meals sacraments, my house
a temple, my table an altar, my speech incense, and myself a priest!
Lord, fulfill thy promise, and let nothing be to me common or unclean.
Let me in faith expect this. Believing it to be so, I shall be
helped to make it so. As I myself am the property of Jesus, my Lord
may take an inventory of all I have, for it is altogether His own; and
I resolve to prove it to be so by the use to which I put it this day.
From morning till evening I would order all things by a happy and holy
rule. My bells shall ring -why should they not? Even my horses shall
have bells -- who has such a right to music as the saints have? But
all my bells, my music, my mirth, shall be turned to holiness, and
shall ring out the name of "The Happy God."