A Set-Apart Life

I just started reading a book by Leslie Ludy called "Set-Apart Femininity".   I just finished the first chapter and my heart feels so encouraged and challenged.  I don't know that I am truly "set-apart" for the Lord, but I want to be.  I want to live a life that is so completely sold out to Him, that nothing could distract my entire devotion to my Lord.

In the first chapter, the story of Gladys Aylward is shared.  She gave up her entire life to serve the persecuted Christians in China.  At the end of her life she said, "My heart is full of praise that one so insignificant, so uneducated, and ordinary in every way could be used to His glory for the blessing of His people in poor persecuted China."  

um. wow.  I want that to be my heart.  "My heart is full of praise that one so insignificant, so uneducated, and so ordinary in every way could be used to His glory for the blessing of His people in poor Lowell.  Or poor Santiago.  Or poor Azerbaijan.  Or poor France.....

I want to live truly set-apart for Him.  Really, I do.