Are you living in blessing?

 "10A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.  I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance".        John 10:10   CSB

Are you being blessed? Jesus wants this for all of His followers but, oftentimes, Satan will come along and steal it before they know what has happened. Jesus doesn't want us to just possess eternal life; He wants us to experience the fullness of the life He has for each of us now! This is the meaning of abundance. The Greek word for abundantly is perissos and actually means superabundance and this equates to excessive, overflowing, surplus, over and above, more than enough, above the ordinary and more than sufficient. The NLT puts it this way: 'My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.' Therefore, we could say that Our Father is Our excessive God - the God of too much.

Satan does not like this one bit and will try to rob you of all that you have. He will try to make you feel guilty because you have so much and many, many people in the world are starving. He will try to make you feel pretentious because you are blessed so much when others aren't. If he can, he will make you feel so bad about your riches that you feel inadequate in your life. Don't let Him.

Jesus, has chosen to bless us with life and everything else that goes along with it. However, the same rain that falls on the starving world, falls on us too. We are susceptible to illness, problems and other things. Christianity does not make a person perfect. They will still have sons or daughters who go off the rails and get into problems. There will still be the addictions within a Christian home, disloyalty and family squabbles. Being rich abundantly does not make us any different to anyone else. 

However, what we do have is the certainty of eternal life - a place in heaven where we will live eternally, and that is worth more than anything, and was part of what Jesus was saying that day. He will give us an abundance here and now and a major blessing when we are transported to heaven. When we talk to people about Jesus, we can tend to lean on the eternity in heaven more than anything. People need to know what Jesus can do for them NOW. Many are desperate and need change at this moment, the thought of going to heaven is too far away to them. We need to let them know what Jesus can do in their lives at this moment in time.

So try and focus on the here and now and live in the blessing and abundance that God has given you and, let others know this too.

Copyright 2025 Grahame Howard. 

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Lord Jesus, I have sinned. I ask you to forgive me and be my Lord and Saviour. Please come into my heart, fill me with Your Spirit and give me a brand new start today. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
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