Flow and Abundance

UV 3698/10000 Flow and Abundance Oh, that you had paid attention to My commandments! Then your peace and prosperity would have been flowing like a river, and your righteousness ( the holiness and purity of the nation ) like the abundant waves of the sea. Isaiah 48 v 18 The commands of God set boundaries to our choices and behaviour. When we pay attention to His commands, our lives abound with peace, prosperity and righteousness. Instead of the normal flight or fight syndrome human beings are caught up in, we would be “in flow” like a river. The Lord will direct the course of this river of peace. Someone was saying that we have experience with sin and deception only for the years we are alive while the enemy has thousands of years of experience. In fact, since we are paying attention or are saturated in the word, we have the infinite power and strength of God in us to defeat the viles of the enemy. Our faith in Jesus gives us access, daily and moment to moment, to the infinite knowledge, wisdom, power, grace, mercy of the Lord. While the rest of the world is pursuing what they think would give them success and happiness, we are pursuing whatever pleases the Lord. Faith pleases the Lord. Obedience pleases the Lord. Delighting in the word of God pleases Him. Humility and love pleases the Lord. Serving the needy pleases the Lord. These are the markers on the path we traverse daily and guide us in our choices and decisions. When we stay within these bounds, we experience the abundance of the blessings of the Lord. We enjoy abundance of peace and righteousness. Our thoughts, words and actions are like the incessant waves of the sea. We have a purpose beyond our own pleasure. We have power beyond our own abilities or strength to fulfill that purpose. The word is the plumb line of righteousness with which we build walls. The word gives us the hope of eternal life in Christ. This hope fills us with joy and assurance. It is key to the abundant life that Jesus said He came for- that we have “abundant life”. Each believer is like a rivulet of peace that empties into the sea of abundance of righteousness. In the estuary where the river meets the sea, the waves are abundant and high. The metaphor of the waves of the sea is employed in the uni-verse above to indicate the depth, the width, the length of God’s love manifested in Jesus towards His faithful. When we understand or perceive the dimensions of the love of Christ, then we, too would be grow to be like Him, be transformed just as Saul, the persecutor with a momentary perception of the vision of Jesus became Paul, the apostle.