Jesus is the only person who lived a life of absolute surrender to God from His birth to the cross. By following His example and practicing what He taught, it doesn’t take long to realize how vulnerable I have to be in order to abandon the pattern of the world and obey the Lord.
The process of learning to trust Him and conforming to His ways only happens when I am willing to take up my cross and resign myself to similar misunderstanding and conflict that Jesus experienced as He followed His Heavenly Father.
It is my earnest and sincere prayer that I will have the courage and perseverance to follow Jesus, no matter what it costs me to forsake my former way of thinking and living.