Giving up our rights to ourselves and to
manifesting oneself is essential. He came to manifest the Father.
We are too anxious to manifest ourselves because we do not recognize that
Him manifesting within is our true purpose and calling.
I look at the picture of Jesus in the garden. I wonder about the "not My will but
Thine be done" experience of Jesus.
In the picture, it is all clean.
It does not show the blood, sweat, and tears. It does not show the Savior coming to a place
of "you do not take My life, I give it."
My heart is so touched. I love my Lord so much for what He chose to
do for me...for each of us. Paul says we
are to die daily. That is the
sanctification process.
I know that it is so easy to dress up our
dysfunction, disbelief, and spiritual arrogance. It will, indeed, take Gethsemane
to break it all down to where I can say:
He must increase and I must decrease. This is not a call to be less than. It is a call to be like Him. Open our eyes that we may see, our ears that
we may hear, and our hearts that we may know Him.
Knowing the truth about Jesus, we find the truth
about ourselves. He says that we have
the potential to be as He was. He died to
give us the right to have back what we
gave away in the Garden of Eden. In the
Garden of Gethsemane He embraced a path of
redemption.
We see crucifixion as something being taken from us
rather than the experience of dropping all that stuff we were not meant to
carry. The Gethsemane of dying daily gets us ready for our own personal Calvary . This is God’s
finest demonstration of Himself in us.
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