It is so easy to consume all of the blessings and provision of our lives. In fact, our culture has wired our habits to work in this way and produced this fierce competition to get “our” piece of the pie. Once we get our piece then the only smart thing to do is hoard it for ourselves or else someone might take it from us. This is a lifestyle of scarcity and what our culture would like to inject into our lives; because this mindset of scarcity drives a capitalistic culture that always leaves us wanting “more” which in turn keeps the machine running.
But yet God says there is a different way; a better way. God desires that each of us realize that all we have flows from Him; every provision we have is a blessing from Him. God desires us to know that our Daddy owns everything. God desires for us to come from a mindset of abundance which comes through faith in believing God is our abundant provider. This lifestyle doesn’t lead to a fierce competition to “beat” our neighbor and hoard our blessing even if that means taking from him. This is a lifestyle that flows out of abundance that is always leaving a piece of the blessing for those around us and specifically those that we would consider “outsiders.” When we leave a piece of God’s provisional blessing in our lives for someone outside of the family we are injecting the blessing of our Daddy into the lives of others who may have never experienced the truth of abundance.
I want to encourage you today to not live in a mindset of scarcity but trust in the abundance of you Daddy and be intentional about sharing His blessing with the foreigner among you.
The scriptures say, “21 And when you cut the grapes in your vineyard, don’t take every last grape-leave a few for the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.22 Don’t ever forget that you were a slave in Egypt. I command you: Do what I’m telling you.”
Chad
