Sunday Musings

Sunday Musings…

Sometimes I just feel like I can’t do enough. During the Tuesday Dessert Social last week I met a woman named Coleen who asked me to pray for her. She had responded angrily at the neighbors at her apartment for some things they legitimately did to wrong her, and is now being kicked out of her home. She totally blames herself and sorely regrets her actions. She knows what it is like to be homeless, and is so afraid to be in that position again. I asked her some questions and prayed for her to get it resolved, but left feeling like I just couldn’t do enough. This week I realized that I felt like I just couldn’t do enough in every part of my life. I wanted to pour out more of myself in my community and spend more time with the Missionary Adventures kids. I wanted to pray more, spend more time with Jesus, read my Bible more—instead of letting it be about a life overflowing with abundance. I began to ask myself, “Am I approaching life from a perspective of scarcity?” It’s so easy when we see so much suffering around us to be overwhelmed and carry heaviness. But that is so not the Jesus we serve. He said that if we would believe in Him, we would have rivers of living water flowing out of our hearts. Praise the Lord! That really makes me excited! It’s about trusting Jesus that He is enough, and then choosing to give what we have been given.

He brought me back to Isaiah 55 again. These are some of my favorite verses, but as I read them again, it made me so happy to see the word abundance. “Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance.”

The living water is for free! But we have to come get it. It is easy to coast along and eat spiritual “junk food.” It might be good stuff like Christian books and movies or even great sermons. Or we might be eating “leftovers”—enjoying what our friends are receiving from Jesus. It might work for awhile, but eventually we’ll be dry and parched. We have to go to Jesus Himself to “eat what is good” and then approach the problems we see around us from a perspective of abundance, not scarcity.