Surrendering to God's Help with Inner Obstacles

Very good. Now let's really look at what I'm trying to convey when I say, for example, that I'm working on it. Now, this is the thing in the human condition that even after noticing that something is not in service to God, in service to our life, in service to those around us, you see, if we really had power, then we should be able to just snap out of it, isn't it? So, like you said, 'I'm not able to do it.' And for all of these things, we are not able to do it, you see. I am not able to do it, but God is. But the real question is: how much of ourselves are we giving to God then? You see, the more of ourselves that we are handing over to God, then God is helping us with cleaning all this stuff out from our insides. So our insides become—and I'm not speaking literally, but you get a sense of it—that our insides become worthy of God's presence, of His love. So God can, and we must really surrender to God with integrity. You see, like one thing would be lip service to say, 'Yeah, I can't do it, so I just give it to God,' and I don't know, like that. But really, another is to say, 'I see this. I see it, and it blocks Your light, Father. It blocks You from using me fully. So please, I don't want anything to block Your light, to block You from shining in my heart temple so that I can bow down to You fully. So please help. Please help.' And He can, and He will. And only through His helping in this way are we growing in our spirituality, because we can only grow with the carrying of the Spirit. He is carrying us. It's very good to notice these things, offer them to God, and after making every attempt and continuing to make every attempt with whatever power we seem to have at our disposal—so it's full work and full grace. It's full effort and full grace.