The Holy People

 
Evening Devotion

DECEMBER 18

 

… the holy people,

Isaiah 62:12

 
Such are all the Lord’s people.
 
He convinces them of sin, 

  sets their hearts against sin, and 

    they give up the practice of sin.
 
They were chosen to be holy.
 
Jesus gave himself for them that they might be sanctified. 

The Holy Spirit takes possession of them, 

  in order to make them meet to be partakers of the 

    inheritance of the saints in light.
 
Holiness becomes their element and delight.
 
They sigh for it, seek it, and endeavour to practice it.
 
They were once very impure, but they are washed, 

  they are sanctified, 

    they are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, 

       and by the Spirit of their God.
 
Justification lies at the root of sanctification.
 
If the man is justified, he will be sanctified; 

   and it is only by sanctification, 

      that he proves his justification.
 
In vain we talk of sin being pardoned, if it is not subdued.
 
The man who can live in sin is neither just not holy; 

    he gives no evidence of interest in Jesus, or 

     that he is a partaker of the Holy Ghost.
 
All holy persons, discover their unholiness, 

  mourn over it, 

  pray to be delivered from it, 

  strive against it, and 

  long to be perfectly free from all that defiles.
 
Such are the holy people, the redeemed of the Lord.
 

Jehovah is a holy God;

Christ will alone the pure confess;

Angels are holy, and the road

To heaven, is that of holiness.

 
James Smith