Focus On The Provider Not The Provision

My Utmost For His Highest

The water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life. —John 4:14

“We are to be fountains through which Jesus can flow as “rivers of living water” in blessing to everyone. Yet some of us are like the Dead Sea, always receiving but never giving, because our relationship is not right with the Lord Jesus. As surely as we receive blessings from Him, He will pour out blessings through us. But whenever the blessings are not being poured out in the same measure they are received, there is a defect in our relationship with Him. Is there anything between you and Jesus Christ? Is there anything hindering your faith in Him?”  CHAMBERS

It is just like us … people … that we subvert God’s intent.  His intent is to use us to be lights that show the way to a relationship with the Father.  We focus on what we can get out of the relationship for ourselves.  It is a common practice in Haiti, that if someone is able to help another someone find a job, that the first someone gets a cut of the salary.  In much the same way, we want our cut in the blessing.  But the Bible makes another principle clear –  that we are not to be concerned about what we will get out of our new life, but we are to lay down that life for others …  

(John 15:13) “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” 

(1 John 3:16) “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.”

(Romans 12:1) “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.”

(Ephesians 5:25) “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her”

Do you see the thread here?  We are supposed to be like Jesus …

(Philippians 2:5-7) “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men”

If your focus is on the Provider and not the provision, you will become less concerned about yourself and more concerned  about others.  Think about it.  ELGIN

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)