Man, God is so powerful. I think it’s one of the funniest things how powerful God is. We walk around so discouraged and frustrated sometimes when God is completely in control. It is kind of a sad thing too. For the last few months a lot of my prayer time is just spent laughing with God. Just at how overwhelmingly more powerful He is than the situation I am praying about. And laughing in amazement at how kind He is to me even when I don’t trust Him or when I fall.
Sometimes I think that the way that we pray gives more credence and authority to our problem than to the God over the problem. I don’t want to give the impression that I’m always confident and filled with faith but I think that when we lack faith we should just ask for it and believe that we receive it.
I was reading a book by Heidi Baker and Shara Pradhan called “Compelled by Love” at work. It’s definitely one of the greatest books I have ever read. But she shares about how each weekend they bring to her house 8 orphaned children from the streets and 8 children who had been at their children’s centers for years. The kids from their centers know that they are loved, they are sons and daughters and everything in the house is available to them. They will go to the fridge and grab a coke.
But the new kids just off the street live like orphans, they will think they have to earn the right to get a coke or else steal it. It takes awhile before they feel loved and secure enough to be at home and believe enough in Baker’s love for them to just get what they want without having to earn it.
This illustration just rocked me. I realized that I had been living like an orphan with God. Trying in little ways to earn God’s favour so that He would bless me and give me the desires of my heart. Not trusting enough in his goodness and kindness and ridiculous generosity to just ask for the things I want. It’s amazing how much my view of who God is determines my attitude in approaching Him. When I meditate on how good God is, and how much He loves me and wants to help me become more like Him then there’s nothing impossible.
So now my heart is to live like God is alive. To live in the trust that He is radically generous with His Spirit with His Love with His gifts and favour. To be a conduit through which His blessings can flow into those around me. I want to be filled with compassion and live to be a blessing. Not relying on my own strength but on His.
In terms of being a conduit of blessing God just reminded me today of this book called “Mr.Contentment and your five wooden cups”. It is another book that has changed my entire life in terms of how I view money. A very simple and powerful book. You can read it here or right-click to download this book
http://davidhepting.googlepages.com/MrContentment.pdf
I feel like I would be doing you a disservice if I didn’t recommend this book highly enough, it helped me to see the nearness of eternity and the beauty of living to simply in order to give greatly. It will prepare you for eternity and let you live with a deeper fulfillment than I ever thought possible.
God bless you guys!
