Expect God’s Abundance

In The Eden Option, I share how our blind spots affect how we see life, God, ourselves, others, and our story.  

You don’t need to visit the eye doctor to test this kind of vision. It simply comes down to whether you see your life primarily through a lens of scarcity or abundance.

In this Story 2 world, feelings of scarcity can seep into everything from relationships to hours in the day to money in our bank account. Regardless of the topic, it seems there’s never enough to go around. The more we obsess over it, the emptier we become.

To counter this, I bought a journal just to record daily, unexpected moments of abundance. Like when the person in front of me at the drive-through pays for my order. Or when I receive an unexpected financial gift to fuel these daily readings. Before long, I had to buy more journals because once I started looking for it, I saw God’s abundance everywhere.

This practice helps me stay expectant for how God provides—while reminding me that  lack never gets the last word if you’re a son or daughter of God. 

If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers—most of which are never even seen—don’t you think he’ll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you? What I’m trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God’s giving. People who don’t know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met. (Mark 6:30-33 MSG)

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