This is the equation for (Jn 3:30)... 'He must increase but I must decrease'. God has a plan to reduce us to nothing so that He can use us in His plan. If our flesh is out of the way, then God can do as He wills without having to deal with us. How many times has God wanted to minister His life in a situation but we were in the way, because of what we wanted and desired to see happen. Paul said it this way in (Gal 2:20)...
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
We must be out of the way for God to minister His life through His Son. We must die daily and be delivered unto death so that Christ can live in our mortal bodies (1Cor 15:31, 2Cor 4:11)... we are ALWAYS being delivered unto death through the plan of God. Sometimes we are so humanly oriented to Christ that we forget that life comes forth out of death. We put human goodness ahead of what God wants to do through the cross in our life. We postpone death in areas of the flesh by making a provision for it so that we can serve God comfortably on our own terms without a cross. There is not a believer that can live as a disciple without a cross. Without Him we can do nothing and through His cross we are reduced to nothing so that Christ becomes all things to all people.
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
We must be out of the way for God to minister His life through His Son. We must die daily and be delivered unto death so that Christ can live in our mortal bodies (1Cor 15:31, 2Cor 4:11)... we are ALWAYS being delivered unto death through the plan of God. Sometimes we are so humanly oriented to Christ that we forget that life comes forth out of death. We put human goodness ahead of what God wants to do through the cross in our life. We postpone death in areas of the flesh by making a provision for it so that we can serve God comfortably on our own terms without a cross. There is not a believer that can live as a disciple without a cross. Without Him we can do nothing and through His cross we are reduced to nothing so that Christ becomes all things to all people.