I Am Persuaded That Love And Humility

I Am Not What I Ought To Be! Ah! How Imperfect And Deficient! - I Am Not What I Wish To Be! I 'abhor What Is Evil,' And I Would 'cleave To What Is Good!' - I Am Not What I Hope To Be! Soon, Soon, I Shall Put Off Mortality: And With Mortality All Sin And Imperfection! Yet, Though I Am Not What I Ought To Be, Nor What I Wish To Be, Nor What I Hope To Be, I Can Truly Say, I Am Not What I Once Was - A Slave To Sin And Satan; And I Can Heartily Join With The Apostle, And Acknowledge; By The Grace Of God, I Am What I Am!

Not Only The Guilt, But The Love Of Sin, And Its Dominion, Are Taken Away, Subdued By Grace, And Cordially Renounced By The Believing Pardoned Sinner.

So Dress And Conduct Yourself So That People Who Have Been In Your Company Will Not Recall What You Had On.

I Am Persuaded That Love And Humility Are The Highest Attainments In The School Of Christ And The Brightest Evidences That He Is Indeed Our Master.

Christ Has Taken Our Nature Into Heaven To Represent Us; And Has Left Us On Earth, With His Nature, To Represent Him.