When going on a trip, you would normally check out Mapquest or Google your destination. (In the old days a person would look at a physical map.) That way you know how to get to your destination the best way possible. Desiring to become something, we need to plan and purse that course of action. If you are planning to try out for a sport and desire to be any good at it, to grow in your spiritual relationship with Jesus or preparing to attend a university or apply for a job, just does not happen. There has to be a plan, having some direction to follow to get where you want to end up. Some of us hope we get to where we want to go and never get there.
To become what God created you to be does not happen by sitting and waiting for the formula to fall out of heaven. He has not physically lifted me off the ground and carried me to a witnessing opportunity or opened a book, holding my head in place and eyelids open, reading out loud to me. As the Holy Spirit prompts, I need to carry out my obedience by the ...
