I thought that this was a wonderful analogy for consecration that came up in one of my dailies. The author was speaking to a physician at a large hospital.
Suppose, in going your rounds among your patients, you should meet with one man who entreated you earnestly to take his case under your especial care in order to cure him, but who should at the same time refuse to tell you all his symptoms or take all your prescribed remedies, and should say to you, “I am quite willing to follow your directions as to certain things, because they commend themselves to my mind as good, but in other matters I prefer judging for myself, and following my own directions.” What would you do in such a case?
Do!…I could do nothing for him unless he would put his whole case into my hands without any reserves, and would obey my directions implicitly.
It is necessary, then, for doctors to be obeyed if they are to have any chance to cure the patient?
Implicitly obeyed!
And that is consecration. God must have the whole case put into his hands without any reserves.
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