If there is another world, I think you can take a cab there ...

Of course there is another world, no part of me doubts it ... In fact, I want to live for that world, live deeply and passionately, with anticipation, yet not missing a moment of this one. How do you live for something you cannot yet imagine? Of course, there is the usual, streets of gold, and gates and walls made of precious stones, and a place where all light radiates from the person you love the most, but all these things are metaphors. So whatever it is, it's going to be amazing, nay enchanting, nay perfect, nay there aren't words ... I feel giddy talking about it and thinking about it. Giddy and inadequate.

I am reading a biography of Amy Carmichael. The further I get into it, the more I feel an inadequate, mediocre Christian, not entirely sold out to God. Not Christ in living flesh as I should be, as I want to be, but more of me enthroned. How sad! From the young age of 22, this lady made a commitment to God that resulted in an incredible number of souls coming to know Christ. She gave herself over to Him, gave up all her earthly ambitions and allowed herself to be sanctified. In the book there is this quote of what sanctification is:

To be like Christ. To displace self from the inner throne, and to enthrone Him; to make not the slightest compromise with the smallest sin. We aim at nothing less than to walk with God all day long, to abide every hour in Christ and He and His words in us, to love God with all the heart and our neighbor as ourselves.... It is possible to cast every care on Him daily, and to be at peace amidst pressure, to see the will of God in everything, to put away all bitterness and clamor and evil speaking, daily and hourly. It IS possible by unreserved resort to divine power under divine conditions to become strongest through and through at our weakest point.
Bishop Handley Moule

This is what I aspire to, the ability to live with Him in the most real way, to make Him a part of my work, my writing, my affections, my relationships. He is the center and holds everything together, I need to bow and acknowledge. I don't want competing passions in my life, I want to belong to Him unreservedly and dedicate my creative powers, my meager talant to the furthering of His kingdom. More importantly I want to bring Him pleasure in me, the way He has pleasure in His Son.

I think this is the way to be heavenly-minded, to live with Him as you would with a husband or a wife, in intimacy and love and allow yourself to be sanctified. How can you be in His presence and not be changed in your mind, your flesh, your desires? How can you be in His presence and not desire zoe?