Inspired Directions in Seeking

"The sanctification of Isaiah is an object lesson to us. The vision appears above the mercy seat. If we fail to have conviction, hunger and thirst, and conviction for holiness will be found at the mercy seat. The seeker is not an unconverted sinner, but a child of God, who has already had visions of God, and had begun the work of his mission. The sinner is convicted by a sight of God's broken law (Rom. 3:19, 20), but conviction for holiness is by a vision of the holiness of God, which no sinner can receive. Conviction for holiness is the feeling of unworthiness in a child of God, to stand in the presence of a holy God, on account of the uncleanness or the depravity of his nature. The sinner confesses his sins; the seeker for holiness confesses his uncleanness, or depravity: his indwelling sin. When the sinner confesses all his sins, immediately he is forgiven; when the seeker for holiness confesses all his uncleanness, immediately the holy fire touches him, and burns away his leprosy of indwelling sin. Under this fiery cleansing and illumination, the child of God now feels fully prepared and eager to run on the mission of God, and cries out to God, "Here am I, send me!"

It is noted that the vision of Isaiah became more exalted and spiritual, and he describes the scenes in his prophecies as though he were present as an eye witness. Like generating steam in a locomotive, like charging a battery with electricity, so the fiery baptism not only purifies, but empowers, the child of God to become a witness for God.

"The voice of God to your soul is, 'Believe and be saved.' First, believe that God has promised to save you from all sin, and to fill you with all holiness. Second, believe He is able thus to save to the uttermost all that come to God through Him. Third, believe He is willing, as well as able, to save you to the uttermost; to purify your heart from all sin, and fill up your heart with love. Fourth, believe He is not only able but willing to save you now. Not when you come to die; not at any distant time; not tomorrow; but today. He will then enable you to believe it is done according to His word" (WESLEY, Sermons, vol. 2, p. 224).
The past confession of our sins can not be made to take place of the confession of all our unrighteousness: it too must be confessed if we would be cleansed from it. But when we confess all our unrighteousness, He who was faithful and just to forgive our sins will be found faithful and just to cleanse us from all unrighteousness in the same way.

This unusual document is made up simply of five pages of key one-paragraph quotes from various famed Holiness figures! Punchy.
 

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