A consecrated life is one that is devoted to the worship and service of God. Consecrated people still experience failure, but they have matured sufficiently to know how to trust God and benefit through their failures and continue on their journey of faith. The Apostle Paul made it clear that he had not arrived at perfection, "Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect; but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus." As I attempt to write about the consecrated life, I will be writing from the perspective of one that is following after Christ Jesus, and not as one who has arrived.