What is LIVING THE ABUNDANT LIFE?
Is it gathering MORE stuff?
Is it checking off everything on your bucket list?
Is it putting MORE money in your bank account?
Is it ____________?
What is LIVING THE ABUNDANT LIFE?
JESUS.
Yup!
I am getting all Christian-ese on you,
because a life without
JESUS
is UN~ABUNDANT.
So what is LIVING THE ABUNDANT LIFE?
Paul said it best,
as I feel I could write the same.
It is a mouthful, but ingest it all.
Tell us Paul~
"But whatever former things were gains to me
[as I thought then],
these things
[once regarded as advancements in merit]
I have come to consider as loss [absolutely worthless]
for the sake of CHRIST
[and the purpose which HE has given my life].
But more than that,
I count everything as loss
compared
to the priceless privilege and supreme advantage of
knowing CHRIST JESUS my LORD
[and of growing more deeply and thoroughly acquainted with HIM
—a joy unequaled].
For HIS sake I have lost everything,
and I consider it all garbage,
so that I may gain CHRIST,
and may be found in HIM [believing and relying on HIM],
not having any righteousness of my own derived from [my obedience to] the Law and its rituals, but [possessing] that [genuine righteousness]
which comes through faith in CHRIST,
the righteousness which comes from GOD on the basis of faith.
And this, so that I may know HIM [experientially, becoming more thoroughly acquainted with Him, understanding the remarkable wonders of HIS PERSON more completely] and [in that same way experience] the power of HIS resurrection [which overflows and is active in believers], and [that I may share] the fellowship of HIS sufferings, by being continually conformed [inwardly into HIS likeness even]
to HIS death [dying as HE did];
so that I may attain to the resurrection
[that will raise me] from the dead" (Philippians 3:7-11AMP).
Oh the sweet spot of
MORE
while living with
LESS.
LESS of me, MORE of HIM.
If I never had LESS how would I know what MORE is?
If I never had to LIVE WITHOUT, how would I know what it is like to
LIVE WITH the MORE of JESUS.
LESS of me, MORE of HIM.
Are you LIVING with LESS of __________?
Do you wish you had MORE of _________?
Oh when GOD takes you to the end of yourself,
that is where you will find yourself
with the ONE who is ALWAYS MORE.
Thank you Paul.
LESS of me, MORE of HIM
because
it is not about me,
because
it is ALL about JESUS
because
JESUS made it
ALL about
me and you and everyone else,
that day on the CROSS.
So
THANK YOU JESUS
for being
THE ABUNDANT LIFE in the HERE & NOW
and into
FOREVER,
for where there is LESS
is where MORE is found.
MORE OF YOU and less of me
is
ALWAYS LIVING WITH MORE.
And that my friend
is when JESUS fills you with MORE than
you could ever imagine,
when HE becomes
your
"HEART OF WORSHIP"
(listen to the song below)
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