TIME TO CHECK THE ACCOUNTS

DAY 47

We always seem to want more from everything: more from life, more from others, and more from God. More strength, more grace, more favour, more anointing and more love. More appears to be better than what we already have isn’t it? Yet, it is fascinating that while God delivers to Noah the same charge He gives Adam, the language used is slightly different.

‘Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth’ – that part of His charge is the unchanged. However, when it came to the section where Adam was told to sudbue the earth and have dominion over all things (Gen 1:28), Noah was rather ‘informed that everything had been delivered into his hands (Gen 9:2)’. An interesting contrast, but we see that God had said it once,  and so was only affirming. He had not changed His mind.

Nonetheless, in looking for more, have we thought to ponder on ‘what has God already given and what we have done with what He gave?’ He has given dominion and power across a range of things that ought to make us nearly invinsible. In the very least, we are equipped to live victoriously. But the question comes again: what have we done with what He has already given?

#sly