Enjoy

About six months ago I wrote on my fridge with a dry erase maker these words:

Don't endure life, enjoy it.

Sound easy enough, doesn't it? Well, I am here to tell you, it is anything but easy. It is worth it but it isn't a short walk on an easy path. It is a journey that takes prayer and time to fully understand.

Paul reveals the secret for this journey in Philippians 4:11

"Not that I speak in respect of want; for I have LEARNED in whatsoever state I am , therewith to be content."

He learned to abide in the place that God put him and to know that when God places, He provides. This is a lesson that cost Paul much. He knew what it meant to have little and to have much and how quickly you can change from much to little. Keep in mind that Paul was Saul, a leader in the Roman army. He had seen his table full of good food, had worn the soft garments under his armor and had rode on fine horses and slept in warm houses. Then he meet his Saviour, and though his physical eyes were blinded for a season, his spiritual eyes were seeing clearly for the first time.

None of that stuff mattered! It was all stuff, that could gone in the blink of the eye. What mattered to Paul was Jesus, and making sure he shared this truth with anyone that God place in his path.

When Paul wrote Philippians he was in jail, with nothing more than the tattered clothes on his beating back. An yet his words were not grumbling and whining,he was practicing what he had preached earlier in this letter (Phil 2:14). He continued to point others to the source of his ability to be content......

Christ!

When you truly understand that God is the giver of all you need and that He decides when and where to place you and for how long, you are better able to live a life that points always to Him. A life that draws onlookers in for a better view of the source that gives you such a peace. A better look at the vine, Christ.

I don't know if you are in little or much during this season of your journey but I do know that if you abide God will supply.