Greater Works V - Living out of the Abundance of His Supply

Living out of the Abundance of His Supply

In the beginning God made the man Adam and placed Him in the garden of Eden.  God made the earth and rested.  He placed man in His finished work, in His rest.   The provision of God was before the man.  The trees of the garden were for fruit to the man.  A river ran through the Garden.   A mist came up and watered the land.  Adam was in God’s work.   Adam was to care for God’s work.  Of course, we know the rest of the story.  

 

The picture of God’s provision is painted again with the children of Israel.  Israel is brought out of Egypt.  Through God’s mighty hand they are brought into Canaan. Israel did not earn or come to Canaan by their own strength.  Israel did not leave Egypt by their own strength.  They came out of Egypt by God, and when they entered Canaan it was though the LORD.  God’s supply was before them.  Canaan was a land flowing with milk and honey.  A land that God was blessing.  Israel was entering into God’s provision, and like Adam they were to keep it.

 

These two pictures that God painted are pictures of God’s supply.  Isn’t grace living out of what God has provided?  The Strong’s definition of grace is the divine influence on the heart and its reflection in the life.  The Apostle John writes of Christ Jesus that of His fullness have we received and grace for grace.  We receive of God and we walk in what He has supplied.  His supply to us is that in Christ.  He is what we live out of.

 

Colossians 2 says “As you have received Christ Jesus walk in Him.”  Our promise, our Canaan is Christ Jesus the LORD.  He is the land we have been planted in.  We are to dwell in Him.  I have considered this for years and feel that God has just begun to make it real.  How do I dwell in Christ?  How do I walk in Him?  These are not religious statements that the Apostle Paul made but the reality He was captured in.  His cry was to find Himself in Christ.  That is the land we are planted in by the Spirit of the Lord.

 

We are baptized into His Death.  All His death speaks and declares is to be real in yours and my heart.  Everything declared in His burial is to be made known in us, and all that is in His resurrection is to be realized.  Here in this land we live as dead to sin.  We live as crucified to the world.  This is part of our life, and we live unto God in Christ.  All things of Christ are to be known, experienced and expressed.  He is a flowing fountain, a river of life, manna from heaven, and a healing ointment to name a few.  

 

This supply we have come to will never run dry.  It will never become old.  We are like the land that God said in Deuteronomy 11 that His eyes are on.  We are the land that the rain of heaven is flowing unto to produce the crop of the Lord.  To bring forth that of Christ Jesus.  What a glorious place we have now come to.  Let us turn our soul and realize all that is in Him!  Glory to God.