Positive Words Newsletter
#157 / 19th June 2008
Expanding your awareness of
"the simplicity that is in Christ"
(II Corinthians 11:3)
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What should you give? You can only give "out of what you have" (II Corinthians 8:11). I think of the story of Jesus feeding five thousand men plus women and children (Luke 9:10-17). What did He have to work with? Five loaves and two small fishes, and the loaves were more like what we would call scones or biscuits today. To Jesus they were a symbol of abundance and prosperity, of enough food to take care of what is estimated to be at least fifteen thousand people. Jesus looked at the loaves and fishes and knew He had something to work on. The disciples looked at them and said, "But what are they for so many?" (John 6:9b). To the disciples they were a symbol of lack. To Jesus they were a symbol of abundance. That is the difference between positive and negative Christianity.
The same is true of what you have. You may, at one end of the scale, be unemployed. You may only have one dollar to give. It is how you look at that one dollar that is going to make the difference. Do you look at it as a symbol of lack? Then you are going to lack. But if you look at it as God looks at it, as a symbol of abundance, then give and the harvest is sure. "Give, and it will be given to you." The little boy gave his lunch to Jesus. Jesus took that lunch and "said a blessing over them"; in John 6:11 it says He gave thanks to God for it. For what was He thanking God? For the symbol of the supply of enough food to feed fifteen thousand people. I do not know how He did it; Bible scholars still disagree. But when it was all over, and all were filled, "what was left over was picked up, twelve baskets of broken pieces" (Luke 9:17). What did Jesus start with? Five loaves and two small fishes. And yet twelve baskets were filled with leftovers because Jesus saw it as a symbol of prosperity and not as a symbol of lack.
Let me give you another Bible account, that of the widow in II Kings 4. "And Elisha said to her, 'What shall I do for you? Tell me; what have you in the house?' And she said, 'Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil'" (verse 2). What was the jar of oil to her? A symbol of lack, the bottom of the barrel. What was it to Elisha? It was a symbol of abundance and prosperity. So Elisha said to her, "Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels and not too few" (verse 3). Then she was instructed to fill those vessels with the oil she had in the jar. She poured the oil into the first vessel and it filled, and into the second vessel and it filled, and she kept pouring and pouring until her son could not find any more vessels. When the woman obeyed the words of the man of God, that which was at first to her a symbol of lack became the reality of abundance.
From the soon-to-be-published book God's Seeds and Secrets by Peter Wade.
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