Daily Reading // 2 Corinthians 9:6-15
READY // SILENCIO
Take a moment to quiet your mind and prepare your heart for your time with the Lord.
READ // LECTIO
Read the passage above up to three times aloud. Allow yourself to feel the words as they are read.
REFLECT // MEDITATIO
Now direct your focus on the words, phrases concepts or sentences that got your attention. What is God speaking to you today through His word?
2 Corinthians 9:8 (NKJV) And God [is] able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all [things,] may have an abundance for every good work.
We typically want our receiving to be generous and our giving to be sparing. The inflow should be more than the outflow. Since we can’t always affect the inflow we are careful, even restrictive at times, with the outflow.
The reading today challenges that kind of inflow/outflow thinking. What if increasing our inflow isn’t the secret at all, but increasing the outflow? What if increasing my own substance isn’t even the proper end goal? How much of what we do in life, and how we do it, would be affected by this change?
This verse boils it all down to a few key concepts:
Sufficiency. “Having all sufficiency.” Is having enough enough? Not in our culture. If you only have enough, you are way behind. We must have more than enough to feel good about ourselves.
Abundance. Now here’s what we’re talking about. We don’t want sufficiency, we want abundance. God is the God of abundance. He wants to shower you with abundance. But check this out: The abundance is for a very specific purpose. It’s ...
For every good work. The abundance God speaks of in this verse is for every good work. Sufficiency for myself and abundance for every good work. When I give myself to good work, then God gives Himself in abundance to me.
Grace. The whole thing begins with grace. Grace. Even sufficiency is far more than I deserve or have earned. Anything from God is the result of His character and His grace. He is generous in grace to me!
RESPOND // ORATIO
Pray in response to what the Lord has spoken to you.
Father, Thank You for Your amazing grace! You have been so good to me. Every day Your sufficiency to me is a gift of your grace. Relationships, activity, health, strength, breath are all reflections of Your grace to me. May my abundance result in every good work for Your Kingdom. Amen.
Tomorrow’s reading -> 2 Corinthians 10:1-6
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