Day Two

Today, Dan and I made the effort to go to the grocery store together.  Our plan is to go together once-a-week.  Nor more random trips and no random stuff.  From now on, we will stay within our budget, pay for groceries with cash, and only buy the things we need for planned meals.  On our way to the store, we stopped at Crestview so Dan could do a PRN evaluation.  While I waited for him, I sat in the therapy room and read the booklet The Divine Economy by Wendell Smith.  It's interesting that God brought his people out of Egypt - the land of not enough (Deuteronomy 26:7) where they were in bondage, to the wilderness where he provided for everything they needed - the land of just enough (Deuteronomy 29:5), to the promised land - the land of more than enough.  That's symbolic of our own spiritual journey, from bondage to sin, to walking with and depending on the Lord, to blessing and prosperity.  The Lord always intended His people to have more than they needed to share with others, as a sign of the Father's blessing on His children.  The blessing was always for the purpose of blessing others.  God made a covenant with Abraham to bless him and bless all nations through him.  The blessing was tangible resources to do the work of God.  Through faith in Christ, we become the seed of Abraham and inherit everything the Lord promised him.  "If you are Christ's then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise" (Galatians 3:29).  I am Abraham's seed.  God will prosper me to help the poor and to help spread the Gospel.