Revelation 10:8-10 8 Then the voice from heaven called to me again: "Go and take the unrolled scroll from the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land." 9 So I approached him and asked him to give me the little scroll. "Yes, take it and eat it," he said. "At first it will taste like honey, but when you swallow it, it will make your stomach sour!" 10 So I took the little scroll from the hands of the angel, and I ate it! It was sweet in my mouth, but it made my stomach sour. *** Sometimes the Lord may plant a seed in our spirit the likeness of which we're not able to describe. It can grow if we're submissive to wait on Him and it only begins to take form as we're patient and faithful to allow it. If we're truly faithful and submissive to what the Lord is doing, we don't attempt to give it form. We merely suffer in patience to allow it to be revealed in His time and take shape by His revelation. Our labor comes in ...
A much loved spiritual mentor pointed out to me the difference between the Apostle Paul's past will (a life without Christ) and His new will that evolved after the Lord called Him. He then challenged me to define what my own new will would say... ...let my response be found here...
"It is not the title that people give to themselves that defines who they are; it is the fruit of what they produce." Graham Cooke