The first disciples have been called, and Jesus is on to recruit more. Nathanael is shocked to find that Jesus was able to describe events surrounding Nathanael that had occurred while Jesus was not physically there. From that, Nathanael knew Jesus to be the Messiah. The response of Jesus is the same today as it was to Nathanael; Jesus simply let him know that much greater things shall be seen. When we first experience the saving relationship with Jesus, we are in awe, ready to give everything for Him and to follow in everything He asks. Yet for most of us our life tends to return to normal. We slowly allow the old ways to take back the newness of our relationship with Christ. We desire to see those greater things and yet they seem to fade away instead.In his book “Not I, But Christ” Jason Henderson describes it this way:“Of course, we are familiar with the gospel as the forgiveness of our sins and the saving of our souls by grace through faith in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross. But after coming to Christ for salvation, I was told to live my life for God in the best way I could, with the help* of the Holy Spirit.This is quite familiar language to many of us, but the concept of “living our* life for God” is actually quite foreign to the gospel that Jesus and the Apostles preached. That might sound as strange to you as it once did to me, but try to suspend judgment until we have looked at a handful of Scriptures.The apostolic gospel was not simply a gift of forgiveness followed by a self-improvement plan with the help of the Holy Spirit. Rather, it was a self-replacement plan—the destruction of one life or nature and its substitution with Another–the life of Christ. As we will be looking at in some depth, the Scriptures unanimously testify that we were crucified with Christ, and He is the risen life of the believer.Much of the body of Christ has a comprehension of the blood of Jesus releasing them from their sins. But what I didn’t have was an understanding that the cross of Christ released me from myself*.”[*Emphasis mine. Go to Cross Eyed Publishing for a free download of the full book.]Today we need to be like we were at the time of our new birth in Christ, entrusting all to Him and nothing to the flesh, allowing the risen Savior to flow through us, not “help” us. It is HIS life, not our own.