CRUCIAL POINT

Chemical elements have a specific melting point. On the melting point  the element changes its physical state from solid to liquid .Something similar happens with our hearts in our relationship with God.

We are born again, when we first say "Yes" to God -- believe in our heart and confess with our mouth that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. From slaves to sin, the devil, the flesh, we become free - saved released and healed ( sozo ). Obtaining independence from our former masters, now we have complete freedom to decide what to do with our independence.This is the situation in which many of us remain for a long period of time , and even to the end of life. It's as slaves in America. After the announcement of the end of slavery, many of them were ignorant of what it means for them, and their masters had no interest to tell them or explain them . Others simply did not believe that it happened, even when they learned the news they continued to work on the plantations.Lord Jesus Christ made ​​the difficult part -- delivering us from bondage. But what to do with our freedom, He has given us the opportunity by providing the freedom of our will to decide for ourselves. Naturally , the Holy Spirit never constrains any one, but over time if we do not support this revelation live in us, we not only do not move to the Cross, but more and more away from the Truth and Cause of our freedom and stray from the narrow path. We are trapped by our old masters who  gladly take us back to the plantation , this can be repeated many times, and is like a circleing before the Cross.

We have two options - either we settle with our status or something begins to burn within us. Something ignited by the Holy Spirit. We start more and more hating this life and timidly start throwing glances at the Cross. It seems scary, but laps before the Cross already bored us to death ...

If we allow the fire to continue to flare, our state reaches the melting point ...

Psalm 39:3, 4
"My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am."

"As the candle melts when the fire burns the wick, so the human heart is melted by divine fire, light and grace, when God becomes tangible and visible to humans."
  Dr. Anna Marinova
 
Once felt the divine fire, light and grace, once again saw his glory and majesty, once glimpsed his face and felt the warmth of His love spilled in front of undeserved mercy, going back it seems inconceivable, we already melted, we passed the crucial point.
To melt is to abandon our shape, trusting God to shape us according to his vision. Why resist?

We do not trust God that the melting process is bearable for us?
We do not trust God that He will finish what He started?
We have no confidence in God that the form He has chosen for us is the perfect one?

The message of the Cross is not limited to Christ's death on it. It is a message for our death also. It is a call to say "Yes" again to God, so we can crucify ourselves on  the Cross to get to the crucial point of melting to be able to saythen as Paul said, "I no longer live, but Christ lives in me . "
Where are we now? Before the Cross, on the Cross, or we are on the road after the Cross?
Shall we have the courage to endure the heat burden, agony, fear, until we reach the crucial point?
And then - shall we endure to the end? Because the awards are only for those who endure to the end.