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February 25

February 25
Set Apart
Ye 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. Our one occupation
shall be to present the perpetual sacrifice of prayer, and praise, and testimony, and self-consecration
to the living God by Jesus Christ.
This being our one aim, we may leave distracting concerns to those who have no higher calling. "Let
the dead bury their dead." It is written, "Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of
the alien shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers," They may manage politics, puzzle out
financial problems, discuss science, and settle the last new quibbles of criticism; 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.