“God is good.”

“God is for you and not against you”

“I am who he says I am.”

Do not mean that God is also not wholly determined to crush every part of us that is not of him.

Every motive, every dream, every ambition, every talent. That is not of him and is solely of us must be crushed and overturned within us. We cannot out of goodwill apply our “goodness” (which is not really goodness at all) to him and his purposes.

Don’t be deceived by ear tickling doctrines. And don’t blame the devil when this happens.

Our religious “goodness” must be upended, uprooted, chopped down and burned up.

“The axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭3:10‬ ‭NASB‬‬

It’s a principle that Jesus began when in the flesh. It’s the principle of travail, death and resurrection.

Then after this travail and daily death he has an empty vessel that he can live through.

It’s his resurrection in our human vessel.

And then his kingdom can be established and increase in the earth through us.