the reading of the day

I have been reading My Utmost for His Highest mostly every day for the last couple years now. I usually keep it in my car so I can read it right before I go into the office to work, and then right after I leave for the day to go home. It's the one semblance of self-discipline that I've actually been able to keep up for any length of time. Today's reading is one that I can always count on to make me think, so I thought I'd share it here.

His!

"Thine they were, and Thou gavest them Me."

John 17:6

The missionary is the one in whom the Holy Ghost has wrought this realization--"Ye are not your own." To say "I am not my own" is to have reached a great point in spiritual nobility. The true nature of the life in the actual whirl is the deliberate giving up of myself to another in sovereign preference, and that other is Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit expounds the nature of Jesus Christ to me in order to make me one with my Lord, not that I might go off as a showroom exhibit. Our Lord never sent any of the disciples out on the ground of what He had done for them. It was not until after the Resurrection, when the disciples had perceived by the power of the Holy Spirit Who He was, that Jesus said "Go."

"If any man come to me and hate not..., he cannot be My disciple," not, he cannot be good and upright, but, he cannot be one over whom Jesus writes the word "Mine." Any one of the relationship Our Lord mentions may be a competitive relationship. I may prefer to belong to my mother, or to my wife, or to myself; then, says Jesus, you cannot be My disciple. This does not mean I will not be saved, but it does mean that I cannot be "His."

Our Lord makes a disciple His own possession, He becomes responsible for him. "Ye shall be witnesses unto Me." The spirit that comes in is not that of doing anything for Jesus, but of being a perfect delight to Him. The secret of the missionary is--I am His, and He is carrying out His enterprises thought me.

Be entirely His.

How does one become "entirely His"?