Becoming Requires Letting Go / Becoming

``He thought he had surrendered his life, but truly, this man couldn't give up the wealth that he had attained. This man could not give up the things of this world that he so desired, that had such a strong foothold in his life. And his response wasn't, well, could I keep some? No. He he went away sorrow. Because the things of his this world that he so desired overpowered his life with Jesus. [00:18:06] (41 seconds)  #ChooseChristNotWealth

So ultimately, have to make decisions for myself, but I also have to give up that control in my life. I don't have the next stepping block that that clearly ascends myself into the next thing. What I can trust is that the things that I'm asked to do, I can do them and I can do them a 100% well even if I don't know if it will lead anywhere. That's such a great analogy for what life is like. [00:08:26] (30 seconds)  #TrustTheNextStep

We've talked about the fact that we're all becoming something. It doesn't matter where you are in life, you're still being shaped by the circumstances we find ourselves in. We're shaped by the events that we've had in our past. But we're all becoming something. And what are the things in our lives that are that are shaping who we are? Where are we putting ourselves in that makes us become who we are becoming? [00:00:22] (31 seconds)  #BecomingOnPurpose

The analogy of of keeping a tree healthy. When you have a vine a vineyard or you have a grove, what you have to do to keep this this grove or vineyard healthy on the long term, you can leave anything to just kind of do its own nature thing for a while. But in order to keep a tree healthy, you have to prune off what's dead. [00:19:41] (34 seconds)  #PruneForLife

Cliff said, when I was a child, I see it with my own children right now, when I was a child, I was playing with a truck. When I was playing with that truck, someone came over to me and they took it from my hands. My response was I went and took the truck back and I hit him on the head with it. That's the way that I was born. That felt right. That's not what God desires for us. [00:12:39] (44 seconds)  #GrowBeyondInstincts

I must become more less. You must become more. How do I become less in my own life and you become more today? Ask that you plant those seeds in our hearts. [00:23:28] (17 seconds)  #LessOfMeMoreOfYou

Am I willing to surrender my life, all of my life? When we surrender, when we give up control of the things that are in our life, It opens a path to life. It opens a path to freedom. [00:14:42] (33 seconds)  #SurrenderOpensFreedom

To surrender something is truly an identity change. Not that you're more like the hockey team, not that you're more like the football team, not that you're more like the soccer team, whatever that is, but that you're more like Christ. That's who he is calling us to be. [00:21:17] (22 seconds)  #IdentityInChrist