THE ROAD TO THE BOTTOM IS HARD!

THE ROAD TO THE BOTTOM IS HARD!

The purging of the flesh takes place on the road to nothing! That is nothing of your old nature. Pride, arrogance, selfishness, insecurity, impurity, bitterness and resentment are all stripped away one at a time. Many think that the road to My kingdom is bright and cheery and filled with excitement, but they are describing the first few miles of the salvation road. In the newborn stage, this is the way it is, because of the freedom from sins outward grip. However you must remember you are on a journey and in order to arrive the road leads through many hard places, all designed to strip away your old human nature.

When you pass through these very dark places you will cry out "O unhappy and pitiable and wretched man that I am! Who will release and deliver me from the shackles of this body of death?" Romans 7:24 (AMP) There are times you will feel abandoned, used, and abused, this is the crushing process that removes the "ways that seem right to you and appear straight before you, but at the end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (AMP)

You will feel like I have abandoned you, but the truth is I am closer to you, then at any other time. No one will completely understand the blackness and the inner loneliness that you are suffering, because it's your time of stripping. I was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and very acquainted with grief: and they hid as it were their faces from Me; I was despised, and they did not esteem Me worthy of anything" so I know what it's like. Isaiah 53:3 (KJV)

If you could understand how that sin and disobedience completely destroyed your once perfect nature, you would understand that the total transformation needed is going to be painful, but you can hold My hand as you walk through each wilderness process. "For the time being no discipline brings joy, but seems grievous and painful; but afterwards it yields a peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it, a harvest of fruit which consists in righteousness--in conformity to My will, purpose, thought, and action, resulting in right living and right standing with in the kingdom.

[12] So then, brace yourselves and reinvigorate and set right your slackened and weakened and drooping hands and strengthen your feeble and palsied and tottering knees, [13] At times you will feel like giving up, but cut through and make firm and plain and smooth, straight paths for your feet, yes, make sure they are safe and upright and happy paths that keep going in the right direction, so that your lame and weak spiritual limbs may not be put out of joint, but rather may be cured by right thinking.

In your wilderness many times you will be cranky but [14] Strive to live in peace with everybody and keep pursuing consecration and holiness, without which no one will ever see the Lord. [15] Exercise foresight, knowing the joy that is just ahead, and be on the watch, to look after one another, to see that no one falls back, in their wilderness experience, or fails to secure My grace (My unmerited favor and spiritual blessing), so that no root of resentment (rancor, bitterness, or hatred) shoots forth and causes trouble and bitter torment, because there are many that become contaminated and defiled by it-"- Hebrews 12:11-15 (AMP)

OK here it is, here is the reason the road to My kingdom goes to the bottom, it's because "I have selected (deliberately chose) what in the world, is foolish, to put the wise to shame, and what the world calls weak, to put the strong to shame. [28] And I also selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is lowborn and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt, even the things that are nothing, that I might depose and bring to nothing the things that are, [30] But it is from My Father that you have your life in Me, Christ Jesus, and Father made Me your Wisdom from above, and revealed to you a knowledge of His divine plan of salvation previously hidden, but now it's manifesting itself as your righteousness, thus making you upright and putting you in right standing before Father, and your Consecration is making you pure and holy, and your Redemption provides your ransom from eternal penalty for sin." 1 Corinthians 1:27-28,30 (AMP)

Bottom line: if you want to be great in My kingdom your flesh must be crucified at the bottom first, because, "no flesh will ever glory in My Father's presence." 1 Corinthians 1:29 (KJV)

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Best regards

Jim Hammerle

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