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 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.”