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Writer's pictureJoni

Day 29: Immeasurably More


You SEE what you don't have.

And because you SEE what you don't have,

you see LESS,

and you feel LESS,

so you start to LIVE as LESS.

But oh how you want MORE.

So how do you LIVE with MORE in the middle of LESS?

You become LESS!

For when you become LESS

and stop thinking about yourself

and what you don't have

you begin to be FILLED

with "IMMEASURABLY MORE" (Ephesians 3:20)

than you ever

thought you could ever have,

because LESS is the sweet spot of MORE.

How do I know?

Because GOD takes me there.

GOD wants you to become nothing

so you can become HIS SOMETHING.

Sometimes GOD allows the stripping to happen.

Sometimes you do the stripping.

But ultimately, we are to become LESS~

to be emptied of SELF.

so that we can be FILLED

with IMMEASURABLY MORE!

And when JESUS becomes your MORE

you have MORE than you could ever ask for,

because HIS MORE

never runs out.

HIS MORE is like a rushing brook

that turns into

a waterfall with water

that gushes and spills all over the place.

You can’t stop it because

HIS WATER is LIVING.

"But whoever drinks the water that I give him will never be thirsty again. But the water that I give him will become in him a spring of water [satisfying his thirst for GOD] welling up [continually flowing, bubbling within him] to eternal life" (John 4:14).

Therefore,

when you are LIVING with LESS of what you WANT,

when you FEEL as if all that you LOVE is being stripped away,

there is SOMEONE who is never STRIPPED away.

For HE sits with you

and LISTENS to you,

so that HE can FILL you

with

THE IMMEASURABLY MORE

that

TRANSCENDS ALL UNDERSTANDING.

Because if you were to look at your

LIFE

on paper of read of what you have LESS of,

you would never think to BELIEVE

that you could ever

BE FILLED.

But how would you ever know if you don't

FOLLOW THE ONE

who

ALWAYS takes you to

THE MORE

that trumps everything.

Oh, do I still crave for what is LESS in my life

that has become a great LOSS?

Oh yes!

Do I still PRAY for the LESS to not be LESS?

Oh yes!

BUT LIVING with LESS is where MORE is found.

Less Doubt, MORE TRUST.

Less Anxiety, MORE PEACE.

Less Despair, MORE JOY.

Less Frustration MORE CONTENTMENT.

Less Loneliness, MORE BELONGING.

Less Bitterness, MORE FORGIVENESS.

Less Rejection, MORE ACCEPTANCE.

Less Hate, MORE LOVE.

Less Pride, MORE HUMILITY.

Less Anger, MORE SELF~CONTROL.

Less Impatience, MORE PATIENCE.

Less Meanness, MORE KINDNESS.

Less Control, MORE GOD.

Less wandering, MORE FOLLOWING.

LESS is the sweet spot of MORE

when you

FOLLOW the ONE who ALWAYS

takes you from LESS to MORE

because

HE is ALWAYS THE MORE.

"I'm a witness to YOUR faithfulness

In every storm, in every step.

Looking back never once did YOU let me go.

And no matter what the future holds.

You'll work it for my good I know.

YOU are faithful.

And I

NEVER WALK ALONE"

(listen to the song below)


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