Possessing My Soul While There is Time
The biggest threat in my life to hearing and obeying God is my own emotional traffic. Emotions mimic the experience of being in the presence of God. Something feeling powerful isn't the same as something being powerful. This takes sobriety and a true desire to let God into the secret places of my heart. I can discern between the lies my emotions tell me and the truth God tells me by the transformation of my will. It's only as I trade my will for God's that I am truly changing. Believing change is necessary isn't the same as letting God change me. Wanting God is very different from yielding to God. Being sincere is often where I get stuck in the journey of becoming wholehearted. This is because if I believe I really "love God" I can easily pacify the requirement to obey Him. Sincerity often becomes the kill switch to embracing poverty. God is looking for me to embrace poverty, not my own sincerity. God judges sincerity by what it actually produced in me. F...