“If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!”
Matthew 7:11
Even though many Christians often pray for the will of God to happen in their lives, they privately nurture the idea that the will of God is a call to painful self-denial and, therefore, would be too hard to bear.
This means that many Christians shrink from the will of God by their actions, contrary to their confessions, and therefore actively wage a war of attrition on the actualization of better blessings in their lives.
Why is this? Because the natural will of man remains active in the lives of many Christians, they are, therefore, unable to accept or cooperate with the intention of God to receive a better and deeper allocation of blessings.
Secondly, many shrink from the will of God because of the popular but wrong notion that the will of God is a painful cross and a divine allocation to suffering and self denial.
While the process of establishing a divine will in our lives be a painstaking process, like the birth of a baby, one thing is sure, after the process comes to a distilled result, a better and deeper quality of blessing than the will of man could never have brought to life.
Now, God never calls us to suffer for the sake of suffering, and he never calls us to give up our will for His own will to make us a bunch of unhappy and deprived children. He instead wants to give us something better and more prosperous as a loving father would.
However, just like a coconut would have to be broken to enable access to the sweet water, God would have to train our spirit through brokenness so that His rich life in us would break free and flow freely.
Without this process no Christian can experience the full release of the life of God in his spirit (Heb. 4:12).
Before Saul could become Paul, Jacob could become Israel, and both could achieve a destiny greater than they ever imagined; they had to be dealt with and broken before the rich blessings of God could flow freely from their lives to bless generations.
Likewise, before we can truly achieve our divine potentials we must be willing and desirous for God to break us so that His will can freely release the richness of divine blessings that is trapped in our souls.
This is more important because “… the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned”. (1 Cor. 2:14).
Once we have this understanding, it will become clearer to us that only the Holy Spirit of God can work out the equation of better blessings, and that it is beyond our limited logic or preferences.
With this understanding, we will find it easier to pass through the process of brokenness without waging war against the blessings of God in our lives, like many Christians actively do- who ascribe all their defeats to the enemy.
Brethren, it is time we know that our natural inclinations are the enemies of God’s blessings in our lives and it’s time we recognize this and begin to wage war against these bitter enemies.
Finally, we must have a desire to obey the following divine instruction in order to release the trapped blessings of God in our lives:
“walk by the Spirit, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you would. But if you are led by the Spirit you are not under the law.” Galatians 5:16-18.
Readings: Galatians 5: 13-26
