April 16

Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook

ALL TURNED TO HOLINESS

   "In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO
   THE LORD" Zech. 14:20

   Happy day when all things shall be consecrated, and the horses' bells
   shall ring out holiness to the Lord! That day has come to me. Do I not
   make all things holy to God? These garments, when I put them on or take
   them off, shall they not remind me of the righteousness of Christ
   Jesus, my Lord? Shall not my work be done as unto the Lord? Oh, that
   today my clothes may be vestments, my meals sacraments, my house a
   temple, my table an altar, my speech incense, and myself a priest!
   Lord, fulfill thy promise, and let nothing be to me common or unclean.

   Let me in faith expect this. Believing it to be so, I shall be helped
   to make it so. As I myself am the property of Jesus, my Lord may take
   an inventory of all I have, for it is altogether His own; and I resolve
   to prove it to be so by the use to which I put it this day. From
   morning till evening I would order all things by a happy and holy rule.
   My bells shall ring -why should they not? Even my horses shall have
   bells -- who has such a right to music as the saints have? But all my
   bells, my music, my mirth, shall be turned to holiness, and shall ring
   out the name of "The Happy God."