God is not in the business of measuring out his gifts to us. The spiritual birth bears some semblance to the natural. When you became born again, re-birthed by God, He gave you all that you would need for life and godliness (I Pet 1:3). Just the same way you don’t hear a mother give birth to a baby and request for hands or feet. All the baby needs for life has been wrapped up within him/her.
Remarkably, science acknowledges that the child’s brain only develops stating that all the child needs is within that little head. No wonder diseases that affect the child’s brain have far reaching consequences even into adult life.
Beyond science however, God’s word says ‘you are complete in Him who is the head over all principality and power’ – Col.2: 8 – 9. Again we are told that God has ‘blessed us with all spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ Jesus’-Eph 1:3. So much the more that scriptures say ‘as God is, so are we here on this earth’ (I John 4:17).
I know that having a sense of lack is customary here on earth. Modern day Christianity even considers it a sign of humility. But God thinks differently, sending his Son that you and I would have life and have it more abundantly.
Let’s follow the reasoning of Brother Paul in Romans 8:32. He says under inspiration of the Holy Ghost that if God was so kind as not to have spared his Son but gave him up for us all freely, what makes us think that he would not have along with him freely given us all things.
Let’s always learn to acknowledge every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus-Philemon 1:6. Scriptures is replete with descriptions of all that God has done for us in Christ Jesus. Listen to this one – “Eye has not see, Ear has not heard, neither has it entered into the hearts of man the things that God has prepared for them that love him. So much the more that we have his spirit to reveal unto us what these free riches are – I Cor. 2:9 – 12.
Realize God has emptied his all. You are his masterpiece (Eph 2:10). Nothing else can be added to you.
Till we meet again, I leave you with this SMS a friend sent to me saying. We are not helpless; we are not destitute; we are not beggars, we are Christians. Purpose defined us in Christ Jesus.
He has finished the work; let’s learn to walk in the reality of this.
-bolaji akanni
