God’s ways are higher than my ways and His thoughts than my thoughts.
I am continually making adjustments in the way I view the world. I am only able to understand His Kingdom by what He chooses to reveal to me as the Holy Spirit guides me.
My natural mind isn’t capable of grasping His kingdom because it is conditioned to think in terms of self-preservation and survival. The things Jesus commands me to do go against that conditioning and I have to disregard my inclinations when I obey Him.
Every day, hour by hour and moment by moment, I have to consider my old nature to be dead so that I can conform to God’s ways.
The more He reveals to me about His Kingdom, the more I am responsible to obey. One thing I am reminded of, over and over again, is how inadequate I am and how dependent I am on the Lord for living His way.
I pray for a heart that is consumed with a desire to know Him more and more intimately.