amor vincit omnia

thy will be done

I’m always floored every time God intentionally chooses to intervene into my measly life and show me how faithful and glorious He really is. He didn’t have to do so. He could’ve just kept allowing me to live with a veil over my face, allowing me to believe that this cloudy vision is the all-truth. But no, He chooses to put things in my life that makes me drawn to my knees in prayer. He chooses to put things in my life that make me understand that my mind really cannot attain His full glory. 

He is so crazy. 

God’s sole will for us is to give Him the glory so that we can be led into holiness, conforming us into His son’s image. 

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
(Romans 8:28-29)

 Everything we do must be done so that His will be done through us. And it’s only by the Spirit—the Holy Spirit, the Spirit that makes us holy—that we can even attempt to do His will. 

We are literally powerless and incapable of doing things that will give God glory, without the gift of the Spirit. We cannot be good or holy or grand or great. We are sinners by birth. Nothing in us is good. Nothing can be credited to us so that we can become good. Even if we don’t do anything bad for the rest of our lives, we are still wicked and dirty and gross. 

It’s only by the Spirit that we can be made new, clean, good, and conformed to the image of Christ. No medium, spiritist, or even preacher can teach us what it takes for us to be good and worthy of Heaven. 

It’s between you and God. And prayer. And Word. 

God knows what we need so that we can be conformed into the image of His one and only Son. He knows what we can take and what we cannot take. He won’t give us more than we can handle. God is capable of putting us through anything so that evil will eventually be purged out of us—whether that may be considered good or bad in our eyes. 

Our lives must revolve around God’s will. Ultimately, as God has us go through this conforming, He wants to see His Son, Jesus, through us. More than Lisa, He desires to see His Son on the day of judgement. 

Therefore, nothing of us must remain. And nothing can remain if we are being led by the Spirit into the will of God. 

Let everything we do be centered around the Cross, leaving no footprint of our own but rather the aroma of death (to ourselves) and the fragrance of Eternal Life.