Lack part 5
Living your life from a place of thinking--thinking you don't have enough, or that you yourself are not enough--is the worst way to live. Because you'll always be chasing what you think you don't have. You'll always try to be someone you're not. Look at John 10:8-10, "All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." Jesus speaking. The red letters. Talking about all that came before Him being thieves and robber. Talking about how trying to come into the sheepfold, the pasture, any other way but through the door is fruitless. You can't earn your way into it. You can't sneak your way into it. You can only enter through the door. Its like the tunnel of love. The straight and narrow path that leads to life. But what we fail to see in this passage--and believe you me, I've heard this preached so many times about how "The devil is the thief. And he's here to rob you, kill you, and destroy you!"--but what we fail to see in this passage is that WE are the thief, when we try to enter in through any other way but the door. We rob ourselves from what we've been given. We kill ourselves trying to get what we think we haven't got by being someone we're not. We destroy everything by trying too hard. Helping or hurting, right? Sometimes we make things worse by trying too hard. By holding on too tight. By thinking we know best. Trying to control people and events. Instead of just shining our light no matter what happens. Instead of knowing that even when it looks bad, all things work together for good. We need to really get it into our heads and hearts that we have no lack because our God has no lack. Stop trying to climb the wall, and just come in through the door. Stop making things so hard on ourselves (and each other) and just receive and release the gift we've already been given. You can't earn a gift. You simply have to receive it. Let what's already inside come out by knowing and believing that its in there. Knowing and believing that HE'S in there. That LOVE is in there! Listen: You have what you need to have. So don't rob yourself of what you've been given. You are who you need to be. So don't rob the rest of us of who you are. You are special. You are important. You have gifts, and ideas, and LOVE that only you can share in your unique way. So don't focus on what you don't have. Focus on what you can do with what you DO have! Don't focus on what's wrong, focus on what's right. Jesus came that we might have life, and have it more abundantly. Love is what makes the abundant life abundant. So live fearlessly. LOVE fearlessly. Live out of your abundance. Let that light shine. Let that LOVE shine! Let what's inside come out. Be your best you. Do small things with great love. Do everything you do heartily--to the best of your ability, because its in your heart to do it. You have no lack, because your God has no lack... and He lives in you!