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The Burning
Bush Devotional
03.18.15
Made for More
Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. - Luke
12:23 NKJV.
I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more
abundantly. - John 10:10b NKJV.
For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much
more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will
reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. - Romans 5:17 NKJV.
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who
loved us. - Romans 8:37 NKJV.
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your
children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to
those who ask Him! - Matthew 7:11 NKJV.
Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty
things, which you do not know. - Jeremiah 33:3 NKJV.
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock,
and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks
finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. - Matthew 7:7-8 NKJV.
Jamie Fox has a unique job description, he is a human scarecrow.
Jamie is 22-years-old, with degrees in music and English, and he knows this
scarecrow thing is just a temporary job before beginning a career in teaching.
Although, he is making $400 a week working an eight hour shift to scare away
partridges, which seem to love the canola in the ten acre field. The farmer
told Jamie to “Bring a deckchair and a good book.” Jamie also plays his ukulele, but it doesn’t
seem to bother the partridges any, they may even like it. He says “The
only way to get rid of the them (the partridges) is to walk down the field and
push them off.” Who knew
partridges liked canola? Before hiring the human scarecrow, the partridges
would eat all the leaves of the plants leaving them to die. (Huffington Post UK
07.10.12)
One thing Jamie knows, and that is that eventually he will pursue
a more meaningful career than that of scarecrow. It may not have happened yet,
but he knows the more meaningful career is coming at some point. Have you ever
felt that way? You know that what you are doing is temporary and there is more
ahead for you? Something more meaningful? Now, you may be trying to fulfill the
spirit of Colossians
3:23 in your life and work “And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the
Lord and not to men”; but still you sense
God has more for you.
God did not and does not want us to plod through life as human
scarecrows in a meaningless existence. There is more to real life than having
food to eat and clothes for the body. Jesus came to give us life, real life,
abundant life. As children of the One true God, we are “more than conquerors through Him who loved
us.” We are meant to “reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.”
So, if we believe God has more for us in this life what do we do? Matthew 7:7-8 is still in the Bible, ask, seek, and knock. God wants to give
good gifts to His children, the best gifts, but often we fail to ask (Matthew 7:11). God tells us what we should do in Jeremiah 33:3, “Call to Me, and I will answer
you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.”
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