Ephesians 3:20-21 ~
"To Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory . . . "
This "exceedingly abundantly above all" can not be measured in dollars, degrees, square footage or where your foot falls on the ladder rung that we run ourselves ragged to ascend. He has already told us not to worry what we will eat or drink or what shall we wear! Those are already provided, now maybe not in Prada but alas we shall survive without our Prada.
No, this abundance was not intended to be weighed and measured on the scales of the West, for the ways of the West weigh and measure in luxury and opulence but this is not the scales of above. We judge and determine by the degree of ease yet, He said I judge by the cross. And while our flesh may cry and whine our spirits do rightly know that the cross was never a way of ease (and remember what He said of your flesh? Go ahead and let us crucify it now!)
This exceedingly abundant is measured, weighed and tried in the spirit man of you, of me and in the spirit man of all those that lay foot across our paths. This abundance will be measured in an eternity of years spent in the splendor of His glory.
The ways of the West have crippled us, we limp and gimp through days laden heavy with burdens of things and how to pay for more of those crippling things.
And He sadly watches on and certainly He says, "You have believed a lie, this abundance was not meant to be in the form of food, or clothing, or square footage, or wealth. It was simply an abundance of Me."
But, the flesh rules and reigns here in the West, and this cruel master has demanded more and cried it is NEVER enough and we have traded Him for a religion that feeds our flesh.
We are a people consumed with today, yet He calls to us still and asks us to be a people consumed with His forever.
And we live amongst a multitude of sleeping spirits, blinded eyes and lost souls and we worry of the state of our bank accounts and the tint in our hair and sadly souls slip away, souls separated for an eternity.
What will we say one day? Yes, Lord, I did receive your wonderful abundance and I parked in my garage several times over and I took it out on the lake every Saturday! And what will He say? Oh, I do worry, He may say, "Depart from Me, I do not know you."
This is what I pray, Lord reveal this truth to us ~
While today we run on streets of asphalt, yet tomorrow we run on streets of gold. Let us not shod our feet with slick shoes to run fast miles but let us shod our feet with the Gospel of Peace to run a multitude home into their Eternal Peace.
And so I race on, not in the moments of today but in the Spirit of Eternity.
"To Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory . . . "
This "exceedingly abundantly above all" can not be measured in dollars, degrees, square footage or where your foot falls on the ladder rung that we run ourselves ragged to ascend. He has already told us not to worry what we will eat or drink or what shall we wear! Those are already provided, now maybe not in Prada but alas we shall survive without our Prada.
No, this abundance was not intended to be weighed and measured on the scales of the West, for the ways of the West weigh and measure in luxury and opulence but this is not the scales of above. We judge and determine by the degree of ease yet, He said I judge by the cross. And while our flesh may cry and whine our spirits do rightly know that the cross was never a way of ease (and remember what He said of your flesh? Go ahead and let us crucify it now!)
This exceedingly abundant is measured, weighed and tried in the spirit man of you, of me and in the spirit man of all those that lay foot across our paths. This abundance will be measured in an eternity of years spent in the splendor of His glory.
The ways of the West have crippled us, we limp and gimp through days laden heavy with burdens of things and how to pay for more of those crippling things.
And He sadly watches on and certainly He says, "You have believed a lie, this abundance was not meant to be in the form of food, or clothing, or square footage, or wealth. It was simply an abundance of Me."
But, the flesh rules and reigns here in the West, and this cruel master has demanded more and cried it is NEVER enough and we have traded Him for a religion that feeds our flesh.
We are a people consumed with today, yet He calls to us still and asks us to be a people consumed with His forever.
And we live amongst a multitude of sleeping spirits, blinded eyes and lost souls and we worry of the state of our bank accounts and the tint in our hair and sadly souls slip away, souls separated for an eternity.
What will we say one day? Yes, Lord, I did receive your wonderful abundance and I parked in my garage several times over and I took it out on the lake every Saturday! And what will He say? Oh, I do worry, He may say, "Depart from Me, I do not know you."
This is what I pray, Lord reveal this truth to us ~
While today we run on streets of asphalt, yet tomorrow we run on streets of gold. Let us not shod our feet with slick shoes to run fast miles but let us shod our feet with the Gospel of Peace to run a multitude home into their Eternal Peace.
And so I race on, not in the moments of today but in the Spirit of Eternity.
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