Consecration, every Believer’s Desire – Charles Spurgeon

YOU know in the church of Rome they have certain orders of men and women who devote themselves to certain benevolent, charitable, or superstitious works, and who come to be especially considered as the servants of the Lord Jesus. Now, we have never admired this form of fraternities and brotherhoods, and sisterhoods; but the spirit of the thing is just that which ought to enter into the heart of every Christian man and woman. Why, you members of the Christian church, you ought to be—what you are, if you are what you profess to be—wholly consecrated to the Savior. “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father,” should be practiced by all the church, not merely by certain orders thence to be called religious. Speak, O Sisters of Mercy! Every Christian woman is a sister of mercy. We hear of men who belong to what is called “the order of Passionists.” Every believing man ought to be of the order of the Passionists, moved by the passion of the Savior to consecrate himself to the Savior’s work.