The Better Part

UV 1321/10,000 The Better Part
And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 36 v 11

This uni-verse is an unique and wonderful promise. It is worth far more than a billion dollars. For dollars cannot guarantee that we increase, endure and be fruitful. But herein is the Lord’s guarantee of our increase. He will sow His seed in the seed of man and of beast. He will multiply our number and our strength. He will increase the fruit of our lips, the fruit of the womb, the fruit of our labour and the fruit of the spirit. His seed is the Word of His promises and His commands. He will prosper us more than ever before. He will give us more gifts, blessings and benefits than in the first half of our lives. The reason is that at our beginnings or in the early part of our lives, our knowledge and understanding of the Lord, His character, His word and His will was very minimal or non existent. Now as we know Him more intimately and relate to Him more and more, as we communicate with Him more deeply and love Him more and more, He is able to bless us according to our increasing faith.
If we look around in nature there are a million tell-tale evidences of God’s existence, His goodness and His greatness. We have experienced a million benefits of His glory, grace and truth in our lives so far. But He will do even better in our latter days. He who has sent us the former rain will also send us the latter rain. He who sustained us this far will continue to bless us even more. He will bless our dwelling places to make it like Jacob’s two-way ladder of angels. One set of angels would carry our prayers, requests, burdens and petitions to the Lord and another would bring back His answers, His benefits and blessings. Our estates or all that we own will be blessed. Like at the marriage at Cana, the Lord will do miracles in our latter days. While earlier we relied on our own minds and experienced scarcity, misery and anxiety, we now rely on our hearts of faith in the Lord and are able to taste the better and miraculous wine that was served the second round. This is the better part of life that Mary had chosen- to be with the Lord, listen to His Word and be blessed as against the choice of her sister Martha who chose to be busy and harassed.
We shall know it is the hand of the Lord that has accomplished the things that have happened in our lives. Just as our lives are no accident, everything that has happened in our lives is for a purpose. Our faith in the Lord is the grace of knowledge that we have. It is the talisman of our success, growth and fulfilment. He is limited only by the extent of our faith. We will do well therefore to keep expanding our faith. As our faith expands, the Lord will multiply the seed of our growth, prosperity and peace. We become His bride. Our minds and hearts are the womb in which He sows. Our lives are the gardens in which He plants. While earlier we mistakenly thought we live for our own sakes, now we know we live and die for and in Him. For to live for Him and in Him is blessed and to die in Him and for Him is even more.

Prateep V Philip