Consecration
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God's promise is, "Ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for
Me with all your heart." Jeremiah 29:13.

The whole heart must be yielded to God, or the change can never be wrought
in us by which we are to be restored to His likeness. By nature we are
alienated from God. The Holy Spirit describes our condition in such words as
these: "Dead in trespasses and sins;" "the whole head is sick, and the whole
heart faint;" "no soundness in it." We are held fast in the snare of Satan,
"taken captive by him at his will." Ephesians 2:1; Isaiah 1:5, 6; 2 Timothy
2:26. God desires to heal us, to set us free. But since this requires an
entire transformation, a renewing of our whole nature, we must yield
ourselves wholly to Him.

The warfare against self is the greatest battle that was ever fought. The
yielding of self, surrendering all to the will of God, requires a struggle;
but the soul must submit to God before it can be renewed in holiness.

Confession
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"He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and
forsaketh them shall have mercy." Proverbs 28:13.

The conditions of obtaining mercy of God are simple and just and reasonable.
The Lord does not require us to do some grievous thing in order that we may
have the forgiveness of sin. We need not make long and wearisome
pilgrimages, or perform painful penances, to commend our souls to the God of
heaven or to expiate our transgression; but he that confesseth and forsaketh
his sin shall have mercy.

Repentance
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How shall a man be just with God? How shall the sinner be made righteous? It
is only through Christ that we can be brought into harmony with God, with
holiness; but how are we to come to Christ? Many are asking the same
question as did the multitude on the Day of Pentecost, when, convicted of
sin, they cried out, "What shall we do?" The first word of Peter's answer
was, "Repent." Acts 2:37, 38. At another time, shortly after, he said,
"Repent, . . . and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out." Acts
3:19.

Repentance includes sorrow for sin and a turning away from it. We shall not
renounce sin unless we see its sinfulness; until we turn away from it in
heart, there will be no real change in the life.