For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake.... So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
2 Corinthians 4:11-12
It is the great mystery of the gospel—death gives life—Jesus' death on the cross gave life.
The death of a vision brings new vision.
The death of a seed gives new life.
It is the central focus of God's requirement for experiencing Him—death.
When Jesus extended us an invitation to experience salvation and a relationship with Him, it came with a great cost, our very lives. Yet what we don't realize is that until we relinquish our total lives, we really aren't living at all.
Without this death we will continue to strive, manipulate, and fret over every detail of life. It is when we finally say, "Yes, Lord, I am Yours completely," that we experience real freedom for the first time. This is the only time when God is fully seen in and through our lives as we are His vessels—vessels for Him to be revealed in and seen by others.
Are you a complete vessel for God to work in and through?
When people look inside, will they see a life that is dead to all things, accept the life of Christ revealed?
We are faced with challenges each day that seek to instill fear and control at every turn, but God says He wants to live through our lives in every area and He wants to reveal Himself to us and those around us.
However, God can only do this if our vessel is free of ourselves and completely His!
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