Abundance!

The LORD is longsuffering and abundant in mercy.

Numbers 14:18

As we thank God today for the United States of America, it’s a good time to recall a speech given by President Franklin Roosevelt on December 6, 1933, as the Great Depression had the nation in its grip. Roosevelt spoke that day on the need for American families to be economically secure. He called his address “The Right to a More Abundant Life.”

Jesus Christ once gave a speech on the same subject, saying in John 10:10, “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.”

The Bible teaches that God gives us abundant mercy (Numbers 14:18), abundant provision (2 Chronicles 11:23), abundant kindness (Nehemiah 9:17), abundant pardon (Isaiah 55:7), and abundant peace (Psalm 37:11).

It’s a serious thing to neglect the abundant life God offers, as Moses warns in Deuteronomy 28: “Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything, therefore you shall serve your enemies” (verses 47-48).

On this Fourth of July, enjoy the abundant life He gives!

To be a follower of Jesus, to know who He is and what He means, is to have a superabundance of life.

WILLIAM BARCLAY^a