Progress is Loss…

“Progress may feel more like loss than gain.” –Mason Cooley

…No, it won’t “maybe” feel more like loss. It will feel more like loss than gain. The progress that the Lord desires for me is not a progressing of my bettering myself but rather of me crucifying myself, descending myself and submitting myself. The ways of the Lord are much higher than ours that they hardly make sense when looking from our perspective. Progress that the Lord requires is exactly loss; loss of self, loss of rights, loss of pride, loss of superiority, loss of reputation, loss of limbs, loss of friends, loss of control, loss of sovereignty, loss of mind, loss of… you fill in the blank.

yes, yes His Holy and Perfect Way is a Way dripping with loss, loss of burdens, loss of sins, loss of shame, loss of fear, loss of death, loss of anxiety, loss of aimlessness, loss of meaninglessness, loss of hell, loss of bondage, loss of being a slave, loss of weakness, loss of weariness, loss of having no escape, loss of unreached dreams, loss of helplessness, loss of failure, loss of being an orphan, loss of ever being alone, loss of lack of options, loss of past mistakes, loss of hate, loss of inability, loss of having to depend on self, loss of everything that is not Him…

can you imagine any better loss to lose? His Way is the Way, & along His Way, you will lose everything that is not of Him… is this the way you are going? Is this the way you wish to go? You will lose everything that is not of Him, yet you will gain everything that is Him. You will gain everything.. if you will gain Him.