Harder, easier?

The Christian way is different: harder, and easier. Christ says "Give me All. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good. I don't want to cut off a branch here and a branch there, I want to have the whole tree down. I don't want to drill the tooth, or crown it, or stop it, but to have it out. Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked--the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours."

- Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis

Pastor Prince mentioned in his book, "Destined to Reign" that some people reckon the Christian way of living is hard, when the actuality of it is that the Christian way of living is almost impossible. But with great relevance to the quote I've found above, we live not of our own works, but through God's way. Surrendering every fibre of our being to Him, and living because we know of our state of righteousness through Jesus Christ, not by what we should or what we can do.

So is it hard? Or is it easy?

We need to learn to rest fully in God's arms. To rest, to enrich ourselves with His presence. More of Him equals to more likeness of Christ in us. We need to remember we are fully righteous through Jesus Christ, to remember we are already made a new creation.

I love Jesus. He's my everything.