Making a living vs. Making Miracles
“Living” “Making a living” In Genesis 3, man falls from grace and in Genesis 3:9 appears the first question in the Bible: “But the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?”. Three little words - Wow! What a great question! Can I get back to you, God? I spent my entire Sunday inside of this question. Are you present and accounted for? How many of us have asked God to help us answer that simple, little life altering question? Isaiah 55:10-11 Instead of “making a living”, what if just for one day, our purpose was “making miracles”? What if for just one day our words left others fed and fulfilled? What if for just one day we all had only miracles to offer? And then we can retreat back to “making a living” tomorrow. (or not !?)
From Webster’s: Possessing life; In active function or use
Our pastor threw out this phrase during his life lesson yesterday. It struck me how many times I have heard that phrase. How many times I have heard that phrase in response to - “How’s life?” or “What are you up to?”. And yet the joy and the peace of those words that one might expect from truly possessing life or creating and being active in life rarely seem to be present with those words.
As the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
and do not return to it without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.