As Long As You Are Glorified

We learned a new song in church this past week and its message has been on my mind ever since. This morning in my devotions my reading in The Valley of Vision (page 21) had this same message:

Help me be in reality before thee

as in appearance I am before men,

to be religious before I profess religion,

to leave the world before i enter the church,

to set my affections on things above,

to shun forbidden follies and vanities,

to be a dispenser as well as a partaker of grace,

to be prepared to bear evil as well as to do good.

O God, make me worthy of this calling,

that the name of Jesus may be glorified in me and I in him.