What I like about this question is that it really causes us to seriously look at our intentions. To me that means that if I agree that I am not desiring to hold back anything from God, then I should be willing to go head long into wherever I am called.
Sometimes I think we hold back in our commitment, even when we know that we are being called out. This commitment may not be something that God is wanting us to do, but it may be a calling to just be, and in the process of being, do so without holding anything of ourselves back.
I suppose another way of saying it is that God does not want us keeping anything in reserve. All is what He has given to us, and all is what He is looking for in return. This totally makes sense to me, and yet why is it so difficult to actually do?
We have a woman who paints prophetically at our church services on both Friday and Sunday. This past Sunday she was doing a painting and I felt the Holy Spirit invite me to step into it, even though it was clearly not finished. What I realized was that I was being asked to step into something that had not been fully completed, and so there was much that remained a mystery. For me, it then became about hearing the Holy Spirit, then trusting in the Person who was asking the question to the level that I could responded immediately.
Essentially, from my place in church I responded to the Lord by acknowledging that I would indeed step into whatever He has for me, even if I can’t see it all laid out before me, but only if He is going too.
At the conclusion of the service the picture was complete, and it was beautiful. What I saw was a green field that went directly up to a line of trees, mountain rock, and a deep blue sky. As I was standing directly in front of the painting I knew that it was easy to say yes to the green field. It was open, lush, safe, but what was not safe were the trees and mountains which lay ahead. To me those represented the unknown, possible danger, and an element of difficulty to navigate.
As I continued to look upon the painting the Holy Spirit was revealing why I had been asked that first question about stepping into what I saw before me. It was about trusting God to be with me whether I was in a green field, where I could see everything in a moment, or into a thick deep woods.
God is with us wherever He asks us to go. We are safe with Him, never alone, and never does He ask us to step into a place that He is not willing to go. I believe God just wants us to give until we have nothing left to give, and then He gets the joy of filling us to overflowing.
Romans 8:32 NKJV He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?