Friday, March 12, 2010

Give, and it will be given to you; The Perfect Provider

Luke 6:38 "Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be out into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you."
I like this verse so much. Every time i sow into something, i tell myself, woohoo, multiplication is happening! 30 fold, 60 fold, 100 fold! Of course, everytime i sure say 100 fold haha. If already wanna exercise faith, why not go all out for it?
But I never realize the verse before it, which actually has A connection to receiving the promise of this verse...

Luke 6:37 "Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven."
Honestly, I don't really like this verse. I don't want to have judgement on myself. And I believe, in the new covenant, there's no more judgement. Cause, Jesus already being judged on my behalf! However, everytime when i fell into the sin of judging and condemning others, I felt very bad. And i fear the judgement will fall on me...

However, recently, I have a new understanding on these two verses.. When God says don't do this or that, He is not limiting our freedom. Do I really believe that what God tells me is for my own good? When He says don't judge, it simply means stop judging and stop condemning, instead, start forgiving..Then, when i give, I will start receiving the blessings of the Lord on me! So, what happens when i judge others? I'll just stop judging and start to repent (change my mind or the way i think on the issue) and to receive my blessings! Why God says don't judge? Cause the negative feelings cannot operate with the blessings, with the faith.. Im cutting myself off from the blessings, i could not connect to the blessings if I was angry and bitter in my heart. Faith simply cant go through! What happens if I don't feel like forgiving? Then I choose to forgive, I forgive by faith, using my will. When i will, so shall my emotion follows the will!

Recently, a question came to me..Do i really believe that God is my Perfect Provider? Cause my actions and feelings did not tell me so... Sometimes, I wished i had something other people have, to a point that it already led to jealousy or even worse.. It caused me to have dislike feelings toward the persons, or even toward myself! I thank God that He revealed to me what was causing all these things, and asked me the question.
I came to realize that my job is not my provider, my money is not my security, how much i can save a month is not how i can exercise faith on what i want to have. God is my perfect provider. He is the one that can meet all my needs. He blesses others just like how He blesses me, and the blessings are always the best! When I believe He is my Perfect Provider, Im free...Free from everything indeed!

Like what Ps Kenneth Copeland always says, Have faith in God!
What to do with the debts?- Have faith in God!
What to do with illnesses?- Have faith in God!
What to do with all the problems at work? - Have faith in God!
What to do when i don't know what else to do? - Have faith in God!
All we need to do is to Have faith in God!
So, Have faith in God! God bless us! Im exercising faith on several things this year, so, anyone wanna join faith with me and together we Have faith in God! ^^

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