Yesterday was youth group day for my oldest. He loves his group! So when the leader asked for volunteers to make snacks for a special event, he jumped on the opportunity. He made three batches of chocolate chip cookies. As I helped scoop them out, I thought, "this is a bit crazy", but there were supposed to be lots of kids, and he was excited.
He returned home with a LOT of cookies. As I put them away (more for us!), I wondered why it is that my son is always a bit "overboard". If I send him to the store to get a loaf of bread, he brings me two. If I ask him to bring me a box of pasta from the pantry, he gets two. If I ask him to bring two shirts with him, he brings four. It's annoying.
However, today it occurred to me that this is another one of God's traits that is seeping out from my son. John 10:10 quotes Jesus, "I have come that they may have life and they might have it more abundantly." 1 John 3:1 says, "how great is the love the Father has lavished on us". And Psalm 23 speaks to how God fills our cup to overflowing.
God doesn't just give us enough to get by. We are blessed with His continual presence, His eternal love, and His omniscient perspective. Paul reminds us in Romans that God, "who did not spare His only son, but gave him up for us all - how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things?" Does this means we get everything we want? No, but we definitely have everything we need - and then some.
I love when God oozes out of us.
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