The barrier to knowing Jesus is insisting upon keeping your natural talents and dispositions. Jesus does not want your old life. He wants to create a new creature in Christ. He is not going to bless something He did not make.
The old nature in a human being is flawed and Jesus cannot build upon it. He wants to start over.
Jesus knows you better than you know yourself. He wants to create His originality in your personality, thoughts, emotions and decision making. This can only happen if you give up the right to yourself. Ask yourself who owns you?
Abandon yourself to Jesus and He will literally transform you into His character. He does this by engineering trials, adversity and new circumstances in your life.
Give Jesus permission to do with you as He pleases. Don’t try to hold on to your past or what seems important to you.
Learn to yield to the Holy Spirit. He will protect you and guide you in the footsteps of Jesus.
The Holy Spirit will crucify every fiber of living for self and replace with His resurrected life.
Jesus does not want you to try and figure out your life or have expectations. He wants you to walk with Him by faith and let go of the future. He wants to be a lamp unto your feet and a light unto your pathway.
Jesus likes to create unpredictable seasons in life because they cause a believer to totally depend upon Him. When life seems secure and smooth Jesus tends to get lost.
The Christ follower who has surrendered to Jesus will look at his circumstances and say this just doesn’t make any sense but it makes perfect sense to Jesus!
Hal Hollister Ministry 