am I.'

For such experiences as I have been describing do influence the will,
and mould the heart, and make it a delight to do God's commandments, and
to execute His purpose, and to be the ministers of His great Word. Some
of us are willing to say that we have learned God's holiness; that we
have seen and confessed our sins; that we have received pardon and
cleansing. Have these experiences made you ready for any service? Have
they made your will flexible--made you dethrone yourself, and enthrone
the King whom the prophet saw? If they have, they are genuine; if they
have not, they are not. Submission of will; glorying in being the
instrument of the divine purpose; ears sharpened to catch His lowest
whisper; eyes that, like those of a dog fixed on his master, watch for
the faintest indication from his guiding eye--these are the infallible
tests and signs of having had lips and heart touched with the live coal
that burns away our uncleanness.

So, friends, would that I could flash upon every conscience that vision!
But you can do so for yourselves. Let me beseech you to bring yourselves
honestly into that solemn light of the character of God, and to ask
yourselves, 'How can two walk together except they be agreed?' Do not
put away such thoughts with any shallow, easy-going talk about how God
is good and will not be hard upon a poor fellow that has tried to do his
best. God is good; God is love. But divine goodness and love cannot find
a way by which the unclean shall dwell with the clean. What then? This
then--Jesus Christ has come. We may be made clean if we trust in Him,
and forsake our sins. He will touch the heart and lips with the fire of
His own Spirit, and then it will be possible to dwell with the
everlasting burnings of that flaming fire which is a holy God. Blessed
are they that have seen the vision; blessed they that have felt it