You're walking down a path with Jesus. Discretion tells you to be quiet, allowing Him to talk. As you walk together the length of the path which leads, you know-not-where, Jesus begins to talk to you about yourself. He unveils God's will for you, with each step of the way, allowing you to choose to walk further, or not. He shows you your current life as a believer, telling you where God wants to take you from where you now are. He begins by taking you back in history to His command to His disciples to love all persons as He and the Father loves them. An impossible assignment they conclude, unless it is realized by allowing oneself to be God's vessel for His love to pass through.

Becoming this vessel begins by prioritizing one's life around the Word of God. In it, God empowers the believer to be His true vessel. As you continue walking, Jesus describes the criterion for discipleship as knowing God's Word, and walking in it. You learn much as you listen and walk this long path with Jesus. Intellectual assent is not the same as surrendering to Him, Jesus explains; nor can one be a part-time believer. Discipleship requires a surrendering completely and consistently to God's Word, which allows the Holy Spirit to engraft that Word upon the believer's soul. Change results. The likeness of Jesus is birthed in the believer. You and Jesus arrive at the end of the path, which delivers you to His likeness.