Elisabeth Elliot: "Said the robin to the sparrow, 'I should really like to know why these anxious human beings rush about and worry so.? Said the sparrow to the robin, 'Friend, I think that it must be that they have no Heavenly Father such as cares for you and me.'"
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Confession. I hold onto things I don't need.
God's been good.
First, He moved us to Hungary and honestly? you can't drag that much stuff across an ocean (well, you can, but not when you only have limited resources!)
Second, He keeps bringing this to my attention, over and over again.
God's been good.
First, He moved us to Hungary and honestly? you can't drag that much stuff across an ocean (well, you can, but not when you only have limited resources!)
Second, He keeps bringing this to my attention, over and over again.
Honestly, I'll be good for a while, but then I will begin to hoard again. Collecting the blessings instead of turning them over again, pouring them out as they deserve.
Through this I've come to realize...
I don't really trust!
Somehow I believe my ability to survive is based on my ability to "keep" myself. Even though it is written:
The Lord is your keeper; Psalm 121:5
If I truly believed this I would live out Jesus' words:
“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?" Matthew 6:25
My life would reflect this kind of trust.
And I wouldn't hoard food, eating to excess, because I would believe there'd be more.
And I wouldn't gather "stuff" until I had no room because I'd believe He would give me exactly what I needed.
I would allow Him to go before me and I would let go of those things I cannot keep to gain that which I cannot lose.
Oh, that God would work this in me!
May I learn to suffer the risk of want in order to be closer to Him.
Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: 12 I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ[b] who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:11-13
May His grace abound in all things!
Amen.
