Enlarged

Oh, the challenges of growing old!  I’m adding a couple of items to my technology doctor-bag: reading glasses and a magnifying glass!  Those cute little labels on the side of computers are NOT for old techs like myself!

God loves every one of His children to the point of overflowing – actually OUR overflowing!  Ephesians says it’s possible Believers be filled with ALL the fullness of God (7:19)  Not sure how much that is, but I suppose it’s more than we can fathom.  To be so filled is blessed, but it is not self-serving but rather God-serving.  We notice when a sink or water fountain or cup overflows.  Imagine how others would notice Christians if all our satisfaction rested in Christ, if we were filled-to-overflowing.  Our faces would aptly reflect the Psalmist’s words, “He satisfieth the longing soul, and the hungry soul He filleth with good.” (117:9)   It is completely and God Himself who enlarges the bliss of His love in us -- not people, not things, not circumstances … JUST Christ!  This week, a teacher asked me how to print something bigger, enlarging it so it would be more visible.  That’s exactly what we are to be to the world: an enlargement of Jesus Christ, a visible up-close-and-personal image of The Savior.  Okay, I know – no one wants to APPEAR larger than they are but that’s just the point – when they look at us, they don’t see US at all: they see Christ,  larger-than-life in us!

Enough that He who made can fill the soul

Here and hereafter till its deeps o’erflow

Enough that love and tenderness control

Our fate where’er in joy or doubt we go.  -- Anonymous

Miles of Smiles, Beverly