I know that I'm still in process. There are things I know and believe but have struggled to really live. There are pieces of my life that I sometimes procrastinate in handing over to God. I don't have it all together, but I believe that my picture of the Christian life is getting clearer and clearer all the time. I am learning so much about what it truly means to follow Jesus; and unfortunately learning how we as Christians have softened, twisted, and manipulated Jesus' calling.
My heart's desire is to know Christ and Him crucified. To understand what it truly means to follow after Him; to pick up my cross; to lose this life and surrender it before Him. I don't want to simply go through the motions of spirituality and faith. I don't want to be good and moral simply for the sake of being good and moral.
I want more. And I want to know that I am not watering down and diminishing what God requires but running passionately into the life He has prepared. Jesus redeemed my life from the pit. He suffered and died on a cross to make a way for me to be with Him for eternity. As I contemplate that cross this morning, I hope and pray that my eyes will clearly see and my heart fully accept the implications that His cross has for me.
To be crucified means, first, the man on the cross is facing only one direction; second, he is not going back; and third, he has no further plans of his own. - A.W. Tozer
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