What man has an earnest heart?  No man is fully earnest.  When the Lord Jesus prayed in the garden, his sweat became as drops of blood.  Holy and full earnestness filled him!  What man has shed his blood in such a manner?  There is not one fully ernest man in all of men.

You have.  But God, in his wise mercy, divides between what is and what is not.  He sees with perfect eyes, and grants with perfect wisdom. 

None will ever rise above his Holy Son.  It is enough for the student to be like his teacher.  Yet who has aspired to such a place?  Who has attained to the measure he will grant? Their names fill such a short list.

This list is written by the Holy Lord Himself, kept securely in his Most Holy Temple.  He alone knows the true definition of “earnest”. 

A man can only do what he knows.  Beyond that, he seeks for help; that he may be taught by the one who is greater.

Many have taught, that we are to “become” by our own volition.  “If you can read you can do.  If you can hear you can accomplish.  All you lack is the doing.” 

Such words are akin to asking someone to make a beam of steel by using only his hands.  Where is the furnace and the forge; those indispensable helpers who are vastly more than we?

“To perfection there is a limit.”  For God has placed things as they are.  If we would reach the summit of his Holy expectation, it will be done only by the strength of God himself.  Even the Holy One has overcome by this same help.

Let us reach in prayer, earnest as we can.  Then let us believe, to receive, that we may do.

Unwillingly and unwittingly, the world awaits the testimony of those who “become”.  They say, “Come and teach us what we do not desire.  Come and teach us what we do not know.”

Even now the world waits.  Even now it is still waiting.  How long must it endure waiting?