March 21

Here’s a delightful promise from II Corinthians 9:8. It says, “God is able to make all grace abound toward you so you may always, in every circumstance be furnished to every good work.” We want God’s grace to abound toward us. We want His blessings to overflow in our direction.

The second part of the promise is the section we tend to dismiss. The only inference we can make here is that when He blesses us, it is not in order that we may consume our abundance upon ourselves but in order that we may have all we need in order to accomplish all He desires us to do!

That He actually wants something of us is often the part we tune out. God has given us the ability to succeed. Some people have mental acuity, some have athletic prowess, some have social grace, some have it all. Early in life, people generally discover what their strengths are and how to employ them successfully. The resultant abundance, however, is usually counted as their own.

How many actually credit the Lord with gifting them in ways that have enabled them to attain worthy goals? How many extrapolate from their success a desire to share what they’ve achieved with others? How many have ever given a momentary consideration to the prospect of using all with which they’ve been supplied toward doing good work for the Kingdom? All you have and all you are belong to Jesus. Spend yourself for Him.