The Alpha of Abundance

UV 2144/10000 The Alpha of Abundance
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
2 Corinthians 9 v 8

God ‘s economy is one of abundance. Jesus stated His purpose on Earth is: I have come that you may have life and life in all its abundance.” God is able and willing to bless us abundantly, so that in ALL things at ALL times, having ALL we need, we may abound in ALL good works. He is able to do much more than we ask, think or imagine. The Psalmist says that He will cause our carts to overflow with abundance. In response to His abounding grace, we as believers of Jesus are to abound in every fruit of the spirit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, humility and self control. It is almost as if the Lord is eager and hungry to see the abundance of such spiritual fruit in our lives.

We are also to abound in faith, in communication of the bon mot de Dieu or the good word of God and the good news of Jesus, in diligence, in hospitality, in giving and in every good work we have the opportunity to do while we live. In so doing, we will be fulfilling our calling as “good stewards of the manifold grace of God.” We are to make the most of every opportunity and talent we possess for the glory of God. We are to abound in thanksgiving and praise for all the good things the Lord has accomplished in our lives this far and wait with patient expectation for the fulfilment of the hope we have in His continuing promises still at work in our lives.
Is there anything we need to do to make God’s manifold grace overflow in the areas of our need? We need to expand our faith, persist in prayer, praise and thanksgiving in anticipation of the blessings of abundance. We also need to never cease giving to the needy in the body of Christ and for the work of the Lord. This is the faith seed we plant in the kingdom of God that we water with the tears of persistent prayer. The Lord takes pleasure in the measure of our giving. The Lord seeing our faithfulness in giving multiplies the seed many times over, a sixty fold, eighty fold or a hundred fold. We are only giving out of what belongs to the Lord in its entirety and yet, the Lord in His graciousness counts it as His debt and repays us in many ways, visible and invisible, finite and infinite, tangible and intangible. Our pleasure at no time should be in the treasure the Lord has given us. Instead, it should be in the pleasure of doing the Lord’s will, of executing His word in ways that impact, influence, benefit the living.