With this week’s passing of summer our local Dairy Queen’s scrolling sign informed us they were closing soon. Not wanting to miss one last ’09 visit we stopped. I asked the girl when they were closing. “Any moment now,” she said, “when the mix runs out.” We helped.
I now have a new answer for those who ask when I am going to retire, “When the mix runs out.” I am counting on the mix not running out. Jesus promised, “Lo, I am with you always.” If that’s the case, how can the mix run out?” Paul closes Ephesians 3 with a wonderful prayer. He prayed, “For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height-to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”
Isn’t that grand? We can be and will be filled with all of God’s fullness.
We are granted the riches of glory. We are strengthened with might. We are grounded in love and know that love passes all knowledge. I cannot even begin to imagine running out. The supply is steady. There is no shortage as long as we long for and make ourselves available to our Father God.
Written by Roger Bothwell on Sept 21, 2009
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