One of the great
movements of God is the flattening of the ego.
We think we know exactly what God wants to do with us, we prepare
ourselves for His great interventions and then everything falls apart. We go through the crushing despair that wrecks our preconceived ideas of how God
should be; of how He must be. We also
lose our sense of who we are; we are not basically good and well arranged, we
are instead rebellious children who want our way above all else. As God flattens us, He also picks us up off
the ground and grants us favor in His Kingdom.
We learn to trust Him unconditionally.
We obey Him with finality. We
stick to Him when others about us turn traitorous. God will not let you off the hook if you have
given Him your life. He will complete
what He started which is to make you His completely both in how you are and how
you look. The family resemblance will be
unmistakable when the Lord finishes with you.
The patience of His grace, the courage of His will, the integrity of His
personality will be what is found in you too.
Until you look and sound and taste just like the wine and bread of
Christ, you will feel the firm working of His hands upon your soul. You are not in God's hand being polished; you
are being remade and that does not come easily or quickly. Taste and see that the Lord is good. Is that not where you too are approaching? It is not an imitation of Christ that you are
gaining so much as the reality of it; Christ in you, the hope of glory. The day will come when it will be impossible
to separate the Christ from the you just as it is impossible for the one who
knew your mother to be able to separate you from your mother as you approach
her age. The resemblance will not be at
just one level of personality but through and through Christ will be seen in
you. That is where you are being taken
and eventually you will get there. The
Cross of Jesus Christ, the redemption He established through it is the
certification that you are being perfected even now as you walk through the
fires and crushing of day by day life.
Give up on your hope of having a comfortable and clear life. It will not happen as long as you are still a
step away from the endpoint of being fully Christ's from head to toe.
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