Today we live in a world of pressure. There’s pressure to perform, pressure to succeed, pressure to look good and pressure to not be pressured out. Which I do a lot. I pressure myself to relax. Ha ha that’s totally ridiculous. Anyway, you and I can be so pressured out to have an abundant life that we miss the whole thing.
Check this out, Jesus said it, “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep”. (John 10:9-11)
The abundant life doesn’t come by us working for it or pressuring out about it, it comes from a relationship with Jesus. He came that we would experience this life that is abundant! When we really make Jesus the Lord of our lives, abundant living becomes a by-product of it. We have peace that passes understanding because we know what to focus our life on.
Things, you know the stuff that can consume us all the time, don’t mean the same because in the major scope of life they are not worth pressuring about. Abundant living comes about when we totally surrender to to God. So let’s get about living life abundantly for Jesus!
Great idea, thanks for this post!