GOD GOES OVER THE TOP
My friend Hector came over
after work Friday to cut down a few branches off my mulberry trees—the ones
that were hanging over the roof of the house. I was picturing maybe six
branches max, but the Lord had something else in mind. Hector became God’s fulfillment
of Ephesians 3:20: “Glory to God, who is able to do far beyond all that we could
ask or imagine by his power at work within us.”
Hector stood back
and looked at my trees with the eyes of an expert mechanic and an artist and he
began to sculpt away. By the time he was finished with the first tree, it was
perfect AND . . . the pile of branches began to grow high. He cut and I pulled
the limbs and branches to the side and started making piles.
Then we started
on the second tree and this one presented a few more problems—dead branches at
the top, crisscrossing branches, etc. So Hector took off the major ones and came
back Sunday to finish up.
Deuteronomy 28:2
tells us: “And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you.”
That’s how I felt. I was getting the ultimate tree trimmer job, when I only
expected a few branches to be cut. I could picture Jesus standing there with a
big smile on His face, saying, “That’s what I wanted, for my girl to be blessed
and surprised, over the top!”
One of the Hebrew
names used for God in the Old Testament is El Shaddai. It means the God of more
than enough. And God delights in overflow. That’s what it was for me this
weekend and I’m so happy.
One of my
favorite Psalms is Psalm 23. Verse 3 says: “He restoreth [is restoring] my
soul.” And it goes on to say in verse 5: “God preparest [is preparing] a table
before me in the presence of mine enemies: God anointest [is anointing] my head
with oil; my cup runneth [is running] over.”
Someone might
say, “God shouldn’t be wasting,” but with God there is always more where that
came from. It’s His delight. I know there’s times when I’ve given a
bigger-than-required tip to a waiter or waitress, a bonus $20 to my hard
working garbage men, and extra presents to my nephew. It’s fun!
Our God is a God of more than just
enough and I love it! When God went way over the top for Elijah and the people
in 1 Kings 18 to show them that He, NOT Baal, was the true God, the people
responded. “When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they
said, Jehovah, he is God; Jehovah, he is God” (v.39).
I didn’t fall on my face when the
Lord blessed me with my tree cutting, but I did sob tears of joy and thanked
the Lord for sending me Hector to help me and do way more than I expected, in a
truly El Shaddai way, to carry out God’s will to bless me.
Be looking for
the attributes of our God as El Shaddai these next several weeks. I’m praying
for the Psalm 23:5 anointing to be poured out and overflow to you.
Love, Carolyn
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