More

One of the reasons I enjoyed going on a mission trip this past summer was because I got to be immersed in a place with LESS.

Less food.
Less comfort.
Less ease.
Less materials.


Never have I been more aware of the state I constantly live in at home: MORE!

Everyone I know...including me....wants more.

I am not so sure that this is a bad thing, in and of itself.

We start going downhill when we want more stuff.

My bible study this week has honed in on the concept of "more".....in a good way.

When we get a taste of something good. We want more.

I believe God gave this to us.

However, He should be the bottomless well that we are drawing our "more" from.

His mercies never end.
He lacks nothing.
He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Listen to some of the portions from my study and see how they hit ya:

"He (God) calls us to the ongoing act of believing. For many of us the act of belief that secures our salvation is past tense and complete. We have already trusted Christ for salvation. We are now and forever secured, but tragically, too many live in past-tense belief, believing God for little more from that time forward."

"Is the scope of your belief in Christ in the past-tense security of salvation, or are you in the active, ongoing lifestyle of believing Christ? Are we simply nouns-believers? Or are we also verbs-believing?"

There are certain prayers that God will always answer on our behalf.

When we ask for more of the right things....He turns on the faucet and lets it rip!

More of Him.
More faith.
More mercy.
More hope.
More love.
More grace.
More forgiveness.
More goodness.
More kindness.
More wisdom.
More understanding.
More self-control.

Is there anything in your life that more of these wouldn't help?!?

Me neither.

Oh Lord, less of us and more of You. Thank you for knowing and creating us with a thirst for abundance. Let us crave and thirst for MORE of the right things. Everything else is an illusion to satisfy. Only You quench the inner desires and only You can give without running out....how we love You!!!