Hurts so Good

The Christian life is one of continual surrender. Someone famous said that... I don't know who. But it's true.

Sometimes there are areas of hardness in my heart that become roadblocks between the Lord and i. When I ask him to penetrate them, and he does, it can be so painful... almost tactile, a ripping away of what i've allowed to be established so firmly.

God is jealous for me. He will have all of me, and he won't relent until he does. Sometimes that involves him eliminating the props that we stand on... the empy things we grasp onto to fill the place that he should occupy. Little idols cast great shadows.

In the end, it's good... it hurts, but its good.