Abundantly

This field is not very far from my house.  And as you can see there are a lot of purple flowers in this picture.  These are Grape Hyacinths; around here they are referred to as blue bells.  And there is an Abundance of them; it is an awesome sight to see!



Yesterday in church (Harvest Chapel, rte 30, Abbottstown, PA) our pastor asked us if we are living abundantly.  And I thought this would make a great topic for this morning and, well, every morning.  Do you know in the King James Version of the bible, abundantly is mentioned 32 times.  So in my estimation this is a pretty important word...I looked it up and this is what I found:

Definition of ABUNDANT

1 a: marked by great plenty (as of resources) <a fair and abundant land>

   b: amply supplied : abounding <an area abundant with bird life>

 

2 : occurring in abundance : ample <abundant rainfall>

— abun·dant·ly adverb

 

However, I am not speaking of abundant things in this writing; I am referring to an abundant life!  A life that is overflowing with God's greatness and love and grace. 

 

When you are living in the love of God, and living in His goodness and living in His grace.  You are living an abundant life.

 

Now you might ask, "How do I do this?"  As you are a child growing up, hopefully in a good home or at least in a decent home, you are living under the love and tutelage of kind parents.  These people you have a relationship with, and they love you and care for you, at least that is what they are supposed to do.  They feed you and clothe you and provide you with a warm and safe place to live and sleep and play and learn.  (This is what good parents are supposed to do.) Parents generally surround their children with love and goodness and grace.  But in order to have this with your parents you have a relationship with them, you converse with them, you play with them, you do kind things for them, you do as you are instructed.  These things are all parts of having a relationship with your parents. 

 

Now I would like you to consider these things, only I want you to imagine them so much greater, that you have a difficult time conceiving of how great this can all be!  This is living abundantly....

http://www.biblestudytools.com/search/?q=abundantly&c=&t=kjv&ps=10&s=Bibles 

If you go to this link you will see how this word is used in the bible...Our God takes amazing care of us if we will but let Him.  When you are a born again Christian, God is simply standing in front of you...and He is always standing right with you.  What does always mean?   He is there constantly...Now just imagine that God has in His hand a present, and He is offering this present to you....For days and months and years, you have ignored Him...and yet He is still standing there, very patiently...and one day you turn to Him and say, "Okay God I think I will take that present that you have so patiently been waiting for me to take..."  You open the present and God has given you the gift of eternal life with Him, and all He asks is that you follow Him...it's time, don't you think?  So try to get a hold of a bible if you can and read and read and read...and learn from God what it is that He wants you to do with your life, and if you follow Him, you will live an abundant life.

 

God is so Good and it is easy to be a blessing to others when we are constantly being blessed by God!