As every Christian has been bought with a price, even “the precious blood of Christ” (1 Pet. i. 19), he is no longer his own, but belongs to Him who died for him and rose again. A child of wrath by nature, even as others, he has become in Christ a child of God. As such he must yield himself in all respects to the demands of this sacred relationship. As such he must freely assent to the absolute claim which God has to the service of his life. He must present himself, soul, body and spirit, as a living sacrifice to him. He must regard himself as charged with a “holy priesthood,” and as such separated to the work of showing forth the praises of Him who has called him unto his kingdom and glory.

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