In the Hebrew scriptures God tells Joshua of the plans He has for him. They are expressed as plans to prosper him, not harm him, plans for hope and a future. Earlier in the story, God told Joshua that He knew him before he formed him in the womb. Clearly God has had his eyes on Joshua. The wonderful news is it is not just Joshua. An abundant, prosperous, hopeful life with a future is there for all of us. God will not harm us. It doesn’t mean that harm will not come to us. It does mean that God will not be the one doing the harm. Many of us have experienced harm in our lives and we blame God for it. I certainly did for a long time. So when we read about plans for a hopeful and abundant future, it doesn’t correlate. In the Christian scriptures, Jesus conveys the same message. Many times he tells his followers that he did not come to condemn them, he came so they might live abundantly. It made me wonder, how does this work? In my date time I have begun to see things differently. I realized I had bought into the idea of God as being some sort of rescuer, he is called a savior, right? But maybe what I need saving from is not reality. Maybe what I need saving from is only seeing things through the eyes in my head? When I shut down my heart to rescue myself from harm, I cut off the main valve of access to God. No wonder the idea of abundance completely baffled me. Only after a breakdown of my reality and slowing letting God in close enough to shed light on the darkness around my heart, did the ice and steel begin to melt. Then I could begin to entertain the idea of abundance. It is a daily process starting with curiosity and a little willingness to consider that things could be different from what I thought they were.
Be From Abundance!
on August 17, 2017My prayer for us is the curiosity to explore what place if any abundance has in our lives and what we are willing to do to embrace it today.
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