Abundant Life Is Bigger Than Your Salary

Say the word abundance and most people picture a bigger salary. Jesus was talking about something wider than money, and something you already have access to.

John 10:10 says, "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." Two sources, two agendas. Whatever is stealing from you is not coming from Jesus.

That life starts on the inside. When you receive Jesus you are made new, and the Spirit begins producing what you could never manufacture. Galatians 5:22-23 says, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." Fruit grows out of a life. It does not get squeezed out by effort.

Abundant life includes healing and wholeness, and that matters most when you are the one hurting. Being sick or broke right now is not a report card on your faith, and God is not withholding until you qualify. He is for your healing, and He is close to you in the waiting.

Philippians 1:11 describes you as "Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God." By Jesus Christ. Not by your discipline. The kindness and generosity that spill out of you are the Holy Spirit at work in a life already made right with God.

So you are not chasing abundance. You are learning to live out of it. Jesus already came and already gave, and the fullness He talked about is not waiting on your performance to show up.