No,
I’m not delirious and yes I know that the word moe, is not actually a
word. Let me explain; tonight I was
sitting at my back patio reading “Crazy Love” by Francis Chan (good read, by
the way) while watching my children playing.
They were on the trampoline and then graduated to our $20 Wal-Mart pool.
Mind
you they weren’t in the pool, but rather Carter had found the joys in filling
up a cup with water and then dumping it out on my bare feet, giggling all the
way. I wasn’t paying that much attention
until I heard Carter yelling “moe, moe, moe, moe”; Which in year old language
means more. I looked up to find that the
water had gotten low enough that he could no longer reach the water to fill up
his cup, so he was shouting at his brother to fill his cup with water.
As
Cade filled it up Carter would delightedly dump it out, all while yelling….. Yeah
you guessed it, “moe”! This experience
combined with the book I was reading led me to the idea that every day God
fills us up; with His goodness, His holiness, His compassion, His love, His
peace, His joy, etc., and we tend to take it for granted, while it leaks out a
hole in the bottom of our cup of life.
In some cases, it’s not a hole so much as a cavern, or even like Carter
was doing, we dump it out all the while yelling to God, “moe, moe, moe, moe”!!!!!
My
prayer tonight as I write this, is that I will recognize all of the things God
fills me with, and be more aware of them so as not to dump them out while demanding
more. May I be filled not only with more of His Spirit, Eph. 5:18, but also
with a greater awareness of His Spirit.
I want to be filled not only with a joy that I can’t even put into
words, 1 Peter 1:8, but also with a calm delight that overshadows my fears,
worries, and the circumstances and stress of everyday life. But most of all I want the love of Christ to
fill me up so much that I am overflowing to everyone around me, and filled to
the measure of all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:16-19
Here
it is in everyday terms; God, help me to stop wasting my opportunities to love
my family because it’s inconvenient, or they are trying my patience, or
interrupting my (selfish) time to do my things.
Help me to see people’s needs all around me, instead of being consumed
with life, ministry duties, and other things that distract me from the two most
important things in life – Loving God, and loving my neighbor as myself.
Thank
you God, for giving me this reminder tonight in the form of my little Carter,
and help me to be full with you, in you, and of you.
Lance,
