In America, until someone goes all in on Jesus, they will most likely adopt the views of Western culture where consumerism and individualism are dominant, but this leads to inadequate placement of our faith and a mindset of scarcity, the opposite of what Jesus made available! This self absorbed mindset where nothing is ever enough, people and material are seen as transactions, and the gathering of the wrong treasure out of fear of future provisions only leads to emptiness and anxiety, because no matter how hard we try to acquire we are still bankrupt without the only blessing that can sustain us! As humans, we can only worship one thing, one thing will dictate how we make decisions, one thing sits on the throne of our heart, serving one master, and if it is anything other than Jesus we are in sin leading to torment and eventual destruction, we are designed to be slaves to God! When we can humble ourselves and sincerely accept Christ as our supreme authority, the sovereign controller and perfector of our faith, the only commodity that meets our every current and future need, we become the most rich, free, and selfless versions of ourselves, whole and in quenching relationship with our creator due to experiencing His grace and mercy through the Holy Spirit! This is the promise of abundant life, now we are in a constant state of surplus, a position to give away our time, energy, desires, money, or very life, not out of guilt or burden, but pleasure and gratitude, reflecting the walking sacrifice our Lord and Savior embraced! When we can comprehend how vast the blessing we have been given through the blood of Christ, anything we wrestle with laying down seems non negotiable! If this seems troublesome then maybe we need to circle back to the very beginning and reconstruct our faith, or possibly mature into understanding that this mindset will become a natural byproduct of genuine salvation, for being a disciple of Jesus is easy until we realize He asks for everything, and our sins were in fact exchanged with a cost! If we have experienced this admiration, what an indescribable place to be, requiring no approval but that of Our Heavenly Father, still encourage one another to endure down the narrow road towards holiness and consecration, for here we are set apart as a trusted clean incorruptible vessel for His glory bearing fruit some hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty, countless spiritual wealth! Desperately seek ways to continually fall into deeper more intimate relationship with Jesus, and don’t dare put a ceiling on the possible blessings and revelations of the Omnipotent One who has no limits, knowing our God is more than we can ever fathom, without origin, and boundless when we walk with The Spirit in surrender!