God does not want us to work for him, to witness for him, to live for him. He wants to get self out of the way so he can work through us. This is the lesson that many Christians never learn. Usually, it is learned only through hardship, trial, affliction, and suffering, until we come to the point where we deal with self. Then self is no longer the center of our life. Our minds and emotions are controlled by the indwelling Christ as we will or reckon upon our resources in him. Until this process is