God’s Program of Abundance

You are a very important person. There are ways that you can advance God’s program that are unique to you and completely beyond the reach of all others. You can do things for God that no one else can do. God has groomed you and has a vested interest in your progress. It is, therefore, very important to God that you be happy and successful and that your life run smoothly.

Several years ago when my grandson Andrew was two years old, my wife Patricia ordered a large green truck for us to give Andrew as a Christmas present. The truck came in November in a big box. The picture on the outside of the box showed the whole truck, so we assumed it was assembled and didn’t think anything about it until we opened the box on the Friday night before Christmas eve, which was on Saturday. It was then that we realized that the truck was in thirteen different pieces and had to be assembled.

The next two hours Patricia and I worked vigorously to put together Andrew”s toy truck. Actually, the process was a lot of fun, and when the job was done and the truck was fully assembled, we stood back and admired our handiwork. It was a marvelous moment, until all of a sudden we realized the project was only half completed. The other half depended on Andrew. Would he like it? Would he play with it? Would he share the toy with his sister and other friends? Would he take care of the truck and use it safely. The success of our two hour effort that Friday evening did not depend on the truck at all but rather on the two year old boy for whom the truck was assembled. If Andrew and his sister fought over the truck or if he destroyed it if a week, or even worse, if Andrew pushed the truck in front of a moving automobile our two hour effort and the money we spent would have been colossal failure.

And so it is with God and this wonderful world that God created. “God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good” (Genesis 1:31). However, even after thousands of years, the people for whom God made the world can’t make it work. Families breakup, children are abused, poverty is blatant, and new technology often creates more pain than progress. The world just isn’t working the way it should.

God created a marvelous world. The creation process must have been a stretch even for God. God’s number one priority is that this wonderful world work the way it was intended to work. God wants more than anything else for God’s creative effort to prove successful. God wants people to be happy, to get along with each other and work together as a team to solve the preconceived problems generated by an ever increasing population and an expanding society.

The reason God is willing to be a part of your life and give you supernatural support is very simple. God needs your help. This is not a weakness on God’s part. It is merely a testimony to the interdependent nature of the world that God created. It will never work as it should unless people work together to make it happen. God made a world which was by design dependant on the people who live in it.

Without changing the cause and effect system on which this world operates, God can only work through the lives and activities of human beings. Only human beings can create an atmosphere of peace and progress and teamwork. Only human beings can provide the labor, the technology and the leadership required to keep the world moving forward, and only you can make your small part of God’s world work. The tripe phrase, “Jesus has no hands but your hands” is very true, at least in your personal world.

God’s success as a creator is totally dependant on men and women just like you. If the people of this world cannot obtain a level of civilization where people live in peace and work together to solve the problems that arise, then God’s creative effort will have been wasted. God will have been a failure.

Everything depends on you and other believers, and the scary thing is, that the growth of negative influence is such that time could be running out. This world cannot forever sustain an ever increasing population and the continuing growth of poverty, crime, disease and violence.

Are you beginning to understand the nature of God’s program and just how important you really are? God made for us a wonderful world, but it isn’t working very well. You and others like you are the only hope that God’s marvelous experiment may yet prove successful, and that most of the people of this world might yet have a reasonable opportunity to experience happiness, purpose and fulfilment.

Keep the Faith,

Earl