Chapter 2 CONSECRATION

Consecration and Covenant

11. God chooses individual men and women and calls each of them by name. He leads them into the desert and there speaks to their hearts¹. Those who heed Him, He sets apart. By His Spirit, He transforms them constantly, leading them more deeply into His love in order to send them out on mission².

Thus is born a covenant of love in which God gives Himself to the person, and the person to God - a covenant which the Scriptures speak of as a betrothal³. From the heart of this covenant flows the whole dynamic of consecration.