Vanishing Point

Then he said to them all: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?
Luke 9:23-25

"Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness."
Philippians 2:5-7

"I must decrease, but He must increase."
John 3:30


To be hungering and thirsting, one has to be dry and empty. Jesus, the epitome of all fullness, emptied Himself out-because of His great love for us.
Take a few moments...take that in. He emptied Himself of...himself, pouring out human attributes such as self desire, self concern, selfishness, self everything .
The point where we end and are empty, where we are hungering for the Bread of Life and thirsting for streams of Living Water is what I call the "Vanishing Point". It is the moment we are so broken that only the Holy Spirit can reach us, when we realize nothing that this world offers can satisfy or fill us, when stone hearts are shattered, and we are emptied out of pride, unforgiveness, fear, jealousy, lust, greed, hatred, covetousness, anger, and selfishness. Self everything vanishes when we are filled with the Holy Spirit, our blinded eyes are opened, deaf ears unlocked, our dead-because-of-sin lives are resurrected and we live for Jesus.
The world would have us believe that this means giving up everything, but we know that just as Paul said that he "counted it all loss for the sake of really knowing Jesus", the truth is that we are giving up nothing but garbage, trinkets, and gaining inexhaustible, incredible eternal wealth in exchange.
Today, beloved, if your "garbage can" is full, it's time to empty it out, and be filled with all the goodness that He has waiting for you.