How few of the Lord’s people have practically recognized the truth that Christ is either Lord of all or He is not Lord at all! If we can judge God’s Word, instead of being judged by it, if we can give God as much or as little as we like, then we are lords and He the indebted one, to be grateful for our dole and obliged by our compliance with His wishes. If on the other hand He is Lord, let us treat Him as such. “Why call ye Me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?”

-Hudson Taylor, quoted in Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret by Dr. & Mrs. Howard Taylor (Peabody, Massachusets: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc. 2008) page 195.