Christ, Our Very Life!

We took him for all that we knew of him and we found that he was much more than we then thought he was; but we did not pick & choose and say, We will have his pardon but we will not have his sanctification. We took the many-sided Christ, the Christ of many glorious characters . . .we took a whole Christ and then we gave him our whole selves. . . . We made no bargains with him; we gave the freehold of our souls to Jesus and of our bodies too and we only asked that we might not have a pulse beating except for him, or our lungs heaving except as he was our very life [Charles H. Spurgeon, MTP, vol. 55, 587].