Overflowing joy! When was the last time you honestly remember experiencing joy like that? I know for me it has been way too long. Maybe those extremely poor believers who Paul had befriended discovered that just as Jesus had said “It is more blessed to give than to receive.”. Maybe they found that giving all of their little gave them a chance to receive a little of God’s all and it was more than they could have ever imagined!
In our rush to go where we think we need to be some days we whizz by with barely a glance out our window. Our goals insist we hurry. But in our rush we just might be missing the plans of God. His plans are like an overflowing river if will just pull off to the side of our road to see them. Their source is before time in the far distant mountains of eternity. Their goal is beyond our horizon and empties into the sea of His forgiveness and love.
There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High. Psalms 46:4
I can’t remember growing so old
Or losing my hair
But they say that I’m there
I can’t remember not being young
To always run…oOh such fun!
But then I’ve walked with Him
Who gave breath to man
Who filled the oceans
And counted their sands
Who laughed at years
As they hurried past
His unchanged promise
That stands at last
And tonight I am tired
But not ready for sleep
And I still remember
How His love and truth
Which He gave by grace
His cross as proof
That my sins were paid
And my soul restored
So at the end of this night
I’ll awake with my Lord
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever. Psalms 23:6 NKJV
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