Poured Over

“What we give away has a way of getting all over us.”

Loren Thornburg

 

Sometimes in trying to pour from glass to glass it doesn’t work very well.  It gets all over me and my glass.  Maybe you have better glass pouring skills than I do, however for me in doing this I often find only half of what I poured got into the other glass and the other half was on me or my glass.  What I find is that it seems this is what happens when we pour our lives out in giving to others...it gets all over us too.  We too are blessed when we give of our lives for others.  Yes, sometimes like the pouring between glass it gets a little messy.  Other times it may seem it has been wasted in falling to the ground.  Yet, always it blesses us too when we pour our lives out on others.  Keep pouring.  Everyone wins!

“If you give, you will receive.  Your gift will return to you in full measure, pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, and running over…”

Luke 6:38 NLT

God is the best pourer, giving abundantly to all in need of being filled.  Each time we pour ourselves out we have made room for more of Him to pour back into us.  He fills us to running over.  Here in Luke Jesus is explaining many things to the disciples encouraging them to really listen to these truths He was explaining.  He knew that their tendency was like many of ours.  We look at our little and don’t see how we could give that away, not knowing how we will make it if we give it away.  Yet, Jesus was teaching just the opposite.  When you give it away you will be given to.  It may not happen as we think it would, but it happens. So now we have no reason not to give knowing God is faithful to return to us.  He knows how to pour gifts into our lives and to fill our cups to running over.  Pour your life out knowing God is pouring it right back into you.