If they do not love Him, they will not want to be like Him. In Desire, we are filled with a longing to be like our Father. The next stop comes at a fork in the road. The broader road often appears the best choice, but it just makes a wide circle and lands you back where you started. The smaller path passes through an uninhabited place called Surrender on its journey toward holiness.
Surrender is really just a cemetery, the final resting place for our selfish plans.
I trust You. After Surrender, the road winds to Obedience, the next stop. The Bible must be the dominating influence in our attitudes and actions. Recently, when a friend asked me to help paint her bedroom, I had to travel through Surrender and Obedience. Realizing that the Lord cared about my feelings but wanted me to serve anyway, I obeyed.