The God of all abundance, April 15th, 2024.

Introduction.

God did not create man because he was lonely. The creator of all things was not trying to fill up any sort of lack in himself.

He is fullnessed itself and is never in need of anything.

Everything he did was pure overflow. Abundance is not something God has, but is

rather something that God is. And one of the great privileges that we as creatures have is the privilege

of learning how to imitate him in this.

How might we learn to overflow?

The beginning of that wisdom is the realization of what God is like.

We are imitative and reflective creatures and we will become like what we worship.

2 Corinthians 3 18, 1 John 3.2.

As we grow in our realization of what he is, which is what happens in the natural course of

our worship of him, we are transformed increasingly

into his likeness. But there is a possible problem. He is in fact the God of all abundance,

but if Christians are working from a false doctrine that assumes he is the God of all scarcity,

it is not surprising that the results we get are as dismal as they are.

But this does require careful treatment, that careful treatment.

This good world is also a fallen place and this means that we do have to deal with the fact of

real scarcity.

Scarcity is a grim reality.

We do have to cope with a scarcity of wisdom, a scarcity of joy, a scarcity of our

old prelapsary inability to see and understand the fullness and goodness of Almighty God.

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