Step 2 – Pursuing
Pursuing – Commit to continually come to God, He alone can change us, and we chose to remain open regardless of shame or feelings.
We are not pursuing perfection.
To pursue perfection would be meaningless. Perfection is beyond our capabilities.
We are pursuing the depth of what it means to live in Sonship with God our Father. Perfection is in God’s hands. If He wants us perfect, then we will allow Him to make us so, but our focus remains on learning to be sons.
Our desire is to be His alone, so if perfection is never seen, it is also irrelevant to us so long as we become His alone. We seek to give Him access to those hidden things that prevent us from being His. He knows that in intimacy He can remove the things that keep us in bondage. In our hearts, we want no fellowship with darkness. Therefore we lay aside and repent of those things that are contrary to us and to His love. We allow Him to do the work. We allow ourselves to receive of His embrace believing that He will help us receive more and more deeply.
He gives us full access to Himself. And, we want to be perfectly His. We will confront those things in us that prevent us from being perfectly His, bringing them to His feet. We will not allow fear nor resentment to keep us from receiving of His love. We will surrender all these things to Him and keep allowing Him to make us into His image.
But He does the work.
Hebrews 10:14 NASBS
[14] For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
There are two sides to this. On one hand He has already perfected us in the heavenlies. On the other hand we’re called to manifest this perfection on the earth. Regardless, we know our frailty would prevent our effort.
1 Peter 1:14-16 NASBS
[14] As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, [15] but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; [16] because it is written, “You SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.”
We take notice that “you SHALL BE HOLY” is a promise and not a command.
Since it is impossible for us to make ourselves holy or perfect, We contend that the only way we experience what is already accomplished in Christ is to submit to intimacy. That is what our experience also testifies. As we submit to letting God love us, His love does the work.
We therefore, choose to not allow shame, fear or failure to chase us out of His presence. Instead we bring our shame, fear and failure to Him so that He may speak to us about them. His love will do the work.