My Own Heart-Abundance
“Decisive Givenness” is the title of the first devotion in the Ann Voskamp devotional, “The Way of Abundance”. The accompanying scripture hits me in a new way. “Walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.” Ephesians 5:2
The way of abundance has been a thought on my mind a lot lately.
How do we have a broken heart and a full heart at the same time?
To me, a broken heart = a full heart.
When my heart is broken, I am reminded of another scripture- 1 Corinthians 13 I love this scripture so much and it reminds me that even in my own brokenness, love never fails.
Most importantly, I don’t have to go looking for it anywhere. It’s right here and always has been.
It can’t be fully snuffed out from my heart. It cannot be obliterated or cast away. Love cannot be undone.
When we were created in Genesis 2, God breathed himself into man to give him life.
So, as scripture is God-breathed, man is literally God-breathed, and God is love, so man has had love breathed into him since the very first created man took his very first breath.
Think about that. “The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.” Genesis 2:7 (KJV)
I like the KJV best because of that last omitted part in the other versions, “became a living soul.”
Only real unadulterated love can do that.
God breathed his own breath of life and of love into man, and it was enough power to turn his lifeless body made from the dust of the ground into a living being encapsulating a soul. Your soul is a love language gift from God, the creator of the Universe.
*Sometimes these things come out of my head and flow through this pen, and I am taken aback breathless in wonder because this is exactly what He is doing in me- breathing life into the words- allowing me a peek inside the Holy process of creation and how much love it took to make it all happen the way He wanted it to.
All I did was write a few inspired and prayed-over words. He created everything.
No mistakes.
No errors.
No second guessing.
Simply love compassion and joy in His creation.
Even after everything that has happened from Genesis to the present day, He still breathes life into us every moment until we are ready to be in His presence once again.
It’s a whole amazing and life-affirming moment to realize the God of the Universe who placed the stars has breathed his love -breath into me in one perfect moment, and at some point will take my breath away so I can spend eternity in his presence.
Xoxo,
