‘Only when we feast on the Father’s love do we stop living like beggars. And here’s the thing, we cannot be bread given for the life of the world if we live like beggars chasing after that which does not satisfy.’ - Glenn Packiam
We have all sought rivers of life from broken cisterns. We are all prodigal children squandering our inheritance. We were all strangers, hard-hearted, stiff-necked, enemies of God…
‘But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ - by grace you have been saved - and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.’ - Ephesians 2:4-7
Now as those who have been made alive, we feast on the abundance of His house, and He gives drink from the river of His delights (Ps 36:8). We have been satisfied with good so that we are renewed (Ps 103:5).
Because our seeking is satisfied in Him, our hearts, hands, and lives can be open to give rather than consume.
’See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are…’ (1 Jn 3:1) Yes, Lord. We are children, not beggars. Let us live in that reality, let us serve from that posture - Your love given to us in and through Christ, amen.
From love,
AB