11/08/2022
“In The Wilderness” ~Rachel Morley
“I’m learning to love the process,
I’m learning to live in the tension,
I’m learning to love the dissonance,
Because I want Your fullness.”
This is a beautiful picture of our walk with Yeshua Messiah. If your desire is to truly become like Him and do away with the flesh then you will experience tension, dissonance, and discomfort as you are being stretched and pruned to fit Him. He doesn’t fit us, we fit Him.
This morning the Lord told me, “Yeshua didn’t die so you could stay the same. He died to save you.” He not only saved us from sin, but he came to save us from our flesh (our own desires, our own will). His death and resurrection cut a new covenant and brought life. To our darkened hearts He brought Light. When we were stuck in the slimy pit of our sin He brought deliverance. If we accept what He has done for us, then we no longer live for ourselves but for Him. (Galatians 2:20)
This walk of transformation will not be easy. Death to self is hard. We live in a world where humanism has infiltrated the Church. Self-love and naval gazing abound. Too many focus on the blessings and ignore the self-denial. In Matthew 16:24 Yeshua clearly states, “If anyone wants to follow after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.” This sounds quite harsh but then He adds, “For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.” In Yeshua, there is purpose in death to self. It brings life and life abundant. (John 10:10)