You are Making it So

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, which He lavished upon us. In all wisdom and insight He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fulness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things upon the earth. In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will, to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation-- having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory."

 Ephesians 1:3-14.

["blessed us", "chose us", "freely bestowed", "in Him we have", "He lavished upon us", "He made known to us", "In Him we have also obtained", "were sealed in Him"] 

We have an obsession with wanting others to think we are generous.

We want the appearance of hospitality.

But You are a God of all treasure and blessing!

All of life and goodness is wrapped up in You.

So, would you rescue us?

Would you teach us to receive?

Would you teach us to value most what we did not contribute to?

                                 to rejoice at the glories of God not made with our hands?

When we taste and see Your goodness, and catch glimpses of your glory-

we see that it was never about what we did, but what you gave.

Teach us to receive, to worship, to love Your lavishing.

Then will we be hospitable!

Then will we be generous!

Then will we love our neighbor!

Not because we wanted them to think we were nice,

but because through faith we will see who we are:

Swallowed up in Jesus- at peace with God in His righteousness.

We will see who we are in seeing You,

we will give of ourselves in faith that all has been given to us.

You are making it so, and we praise You.