His Fullness
It is Finished. The veil has been torn. Because of Jesus’ death on the Cross and Resurrection, the gate to the Father swung wide open! When we come into relationship with Him, we get an all access pass to our Creator- limits are off. We can have as much of God as we want. We have been given His fullness
These truths are all over scripture (2 Corinthians 3; James 4; Col 1; John 1; 1 Corinthians 2)
Awesome stuff right??! Access to His Fullness! Wow.
As I was thinking about this truth, I felt a stirring in my Spirit: can I honestly say I experience His fullness? Am I taking hold of what He’s already given me? The stirring continued because clearly there is a disconnect somewhere. Why am I not experiencing His fullness when I’m always asking and pursuing “the more”, the more of Him.
Then He dropped something in my spirit, “You have full access to Me, but do I have full access to You?”
What if the disconnect of experiencing the more of Him happens because He’s asking the same thing of us? He’s asking for more of us, for every ounce of our being. As we yield more of ourselves to Him (our gifts, talents, desires, dreams, money, everything), He gains ground and we actually get the thing we want the most- Him.
It makes sense. How can we be “full” of something if the space is already preoccupied by something else?
What parts of ourselves haven’t been yielded to the Father? What are the things inside of us that say “I’ll follow you but I’m not willing to go too far by giving up _______?” Or what parts of us are afraid to be vulnerable with Him? Where are we scared to give up everything because we just aren’t quite sure if He’s worth it? What if He’s a big disappointment and everything we sacrificed was in vain? We listen to the voice of fear that says if you give Him everything, you’ll look more like a coo-coo bird than a believer so prepare to say bye to friends and family- they won’t want to have anything to do with you. Is it possible to be “too sold-out” for Him?
These are all questions that we have to face in some kind of facet. And our answers can go one of two ways… 1) we continue to live bound by fear & doubt and choose a false sense of safety and security; we don’t experience His fullness, and we miss out on the things He has for us or 2) motivated by His love, we surrender everything and say yes to Him no matter the cost and we experience His fullness & the things He has for us, and live a life that we couldn’t fathom even if we were told.
I don’t know about you, but I want to latter.
So I will go to the hard places and work through the places in me that are still telling Him “no” where I haven’t completely yielded myself until there are no “no’s” left in Me, until He has all of Me, until there’s nothing but a full and resounding YESSSSSS! in my being to anything & everything He places before me.
I am a yielded laid down lover.
It’s a choice.
And everyone has to choose for themselves. Is He worth it to you?
