GUSHERS

The fount of blessing has many hues and flavors. Only we sometimes can’t appreciate them for their true worth.

We gaze upon the flow of a moment with eyes defining what we see according to whatever standard is our frame of reference. And we react to the gusher of such events also according to our desires. Minds succumbed by a taste for what we decide best is the pulse of our own reality.

None of this of course has much to do with God’s streams of life that are intended to rush through our own reality. How often it is so easy to resist what is suppose to be the way our purpose should flow.

Part of the problem is that God can see the end from the beginning. He guides us towards eternity. And that means at times with our limited vision we only see this realm and can only appreciate what happens as it applies to now.

Perhaps for some this will only be a form of rambling. For many can see a gusher, but not everyone always dwells upon the origin.

Whether a trickle that comes into one’s life from some circumstance or a rushing current of opportunity, it is still by the hand of the Lord. It is sad how too often people seem to think they can dig their own well and presume if they find water it is merely from their own doing.

God grants the rain, he grants the oceans. Whatever access we have beyond need it his creation.

Still there are those that never learn the lesson as it applies. Like the people of Israel who were told to only gather enough manna for one day, except on the Sabbath, so too we at times ignore God’s plan for provision. It is to teach us to trust him. To not grant us great abundance according to our desires, but rather by his hand of providence.

Thus we are to see in the midst of our lean or fat the reality that God’s gusher it always there. It is not the consequence of how much drilling we do, but instead a flow that comes by his will.

And to that end, even in the desert of our need, God can create a gusher or he can teach us with a trickle. This isn’t a lesson that comes easy or without stress, but it is still the joyous miracle of God’s sovereignty that gushes into our life when we cling by sight through our soul and not our minds.

It is a moment of springs. Calm refreshed by the awesome reality that he truly is the water of life that will cleanse and sustain. Providing we never forget the rain does fall not by our worth. That is perhaps the best gusher of them all. And too often it is the one we are quickest to miss.