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\"God's\u201cEverything that is Mine is yours.\u201d<\/h4>\n

Jesus
\nWow! Let me illustrate<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago I had come home from Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center and continued to be in tremendous pain.\u00a0 For several days I lay curled up on the bed in a fetal position sustaining life with protein drinks and pain killers, just enduring. Amie was at wits ends to know what to do next. Her and Pastor Matt put their heads together, called University of Utah Medical center and decided to drive me down to the Emergency room. Pastor Matt very graciously offered to drive us down. Thirty minutes before Matt showed up at the house to pick us up another friend suddenly drove up into the yard- one we had not seen all summer. We had made very good friends of some folk who have a summer home in Wayan. Several times he would drive down to our ranch in the summer and fish in our stream on the ranch. We have become close friends, but we hadn\u2019t seen each other this entire year. When \u201cChuck\u201d drove up and found out what was going on he turned to Amie and said, \u201cOur home is a few minutes from the University hospital. Here\u2019s the key- go in and make yourself at home.\u201d<\/p>\n

First of all, it was NO ACCIDENT that Chuck just happened to drive up our driveway minutes before we left for an extended stay at the University Hospital. Moreover, it was an unbelievably gracious act for them to open up their home for Amie\u2019s use, one that I am eternally grateful for and one that shows that God\u2019s timing is PERFECT! But more to my point, this little story illustrates to me Jesus\u2019 surpassingly gracious statement: \u201cEverything that is Mine, is Yours.\u201d Chuck kept reassuring us through our apprehensions- \u201cNo, What are friends for? Go in and make yourself at home- use the place like it were your own.\u201d<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s the take away.<\/p>\n

If our heart is in the wrong place- it automatically goes to the wrong things. Does this promise mean God will give me everything I want? Well yes\u2026 and no. If you mean: \u201cWill God cater to my flesh and heap rich\u2019s upon me to allow me to live a life of wanton pleasure on the earth pleasing self?\u201d Well, then the answer\u2019s \u201cno\u201d. Satan will oblige you on that point; he\u2019ll fill those kinds of desires for you and turn you away from God into an idolatrous mess happily. But, if on the other hand you mean what Paul meant when He said: \u201cAnd God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that you having sufficiency in all things may abound to every good work\u201d- then yes- that is exactly what Jesus is getting at. Jesus is not so much talking about \u201cthings\u201d as He is His resources.
\nHis rich\u2019s in Christ Jesus that make us live the abundant life and that in turn flows from us by the things of the Spirit to others.
\nThis is not the ultimate get rich scheme- it is the ultimate \u201cI am investing my life in you, so you will invest your life in others\u201d plan.
\nIt is the grace of a Good Father, the rich\u2019s of Jesus Christ, the resources of the Spirit available to His Children simply because the Triune God of eternity loves us in Christ Jesus.<\/p>\n

So, today as we kneel together at the foot of the cross, think of what Jesus is saying- Everything that is Mine is yours- have you taken him up on the offer or are you bunking at MOTEL 6?<\/p>\n

Because of grace,
\nTim<\/p>\n

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