The truth about living

What we know in our hearts is often the most valuable tool of testing for God to use to strengthen us. I believe that if you live your life submitted to the will of God and the authority He has hand selected for you to be under- no decision you make will ever cause you to be swallowed up in regret. There is a principal I have loved even before I knew what it was, and that is not loving my life unto death (Revelation 12:11). This whole year God has put this upon my heart and opened revelation as to what it means, testing me in so many areas, to refine my heart and push me deeper into my calling. If no thing can separate me from the love of Christ, the word of my testimony will truly allow those around me to overcome. That is powerful, and do you know why? Because more often than not, it requires the blade to sink deep inside of your heart. And when the blood comes flowing out, do I tell the surgeon to stop operating on my heart, or do I say finish what you started no matter how bad it hurts, no matter if I don't understand why your doing this, even if you told me it would feel, look, or seem different, I trust You to finish operating on me.
I have a passion to fulfill the calling that God has created for me. And I am learning increasingly more and more that things will be placed into my hands so that I can experience something to help me relate to others, refine my character, and even show God that no matter what that thing is I can be fulfilled with or without it. God will never give us more than we can handle, and that includes the extent of our revelation on something. He will open doors to us as we show ourselves faithful. He will close doors in order to open new ones. He will ultimately be sovereign and holy over EVERYTHING we allow Him to do in our lives. And doctrinally, if God is flawless and without contradiction we can trust Him undoubtedly with every thing inside of us. The Bible says that without a vision the people perish, or cast off. With a vision for your life from God, every obstacle is able to be achieved because you know you are working towards something. If you don't know the direction you are headed when something stands in your way, when something is pulled out, when something is pushed in, when something is broken, etc- you begin to question why you are even doing anything, and before you know it you have wandered down every path except the one that was lit up bright and clear- pointing you to where you should have been going all along. A bruise is better than a broken bone. A few tears is better than thousands. Allowing God to test your heart is so invaluable in the shaping of your destiny. You would not fulfill half of your potential without making sacrifices to God. How can God win your heart if you aren't willing to lay everything down for Him? In a test and sacrifice there is reward. Do you believe that? Does not the Bible say that God would pour out a such a huge blessing that you could not CONTAIN it? If every word of the Bible is pure and true, you better believe that God is going to reward every decision you make to further His kingdom and to have not your will but His be done.

John 12:23-28 Amplified Bible

23And Jesus answered them, The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified and exalted.
24I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains [just one grain; it never becomes more but lives] by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces many others and yields a rich harvest.
25Anyone who loves his life loses it, but anyone who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal. [Whoever has no love for, no concern for, no regard for his life here on earth, but despises it, preserves his life forever and ever.]
26If anyone serves Me, he must continue to follow Me [to cleave steadfastly to Me, conform wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying] and wherever I am, there will My servant be also. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
27Now My soul is troubled and distressed, and what shall I say? Father, save Me from this hour [of trial and agony]? But it was for this very purpose that I have come to this hour [that I might undergo it].
28[Rather, I will say,] Father, glorify (honor and extol) Your [own] name! Then there came a voice out of heaven saying, I have already glorified it, and I will glorify it again.