Expect What You Accept

We can’t expect to walk in the fullness of God if we can’t accept the fullness of God.

In Leviticus 25, God talks about taking a “Sabbath” year of rest, once every seven years.  During this year, the people are to do no planting and no harvesting.  “But you might ask, 'What will we eat during the seventh year, since we are not allowed to plant or harvest crops that year?' Be assured that I will send my blessing for you in the sixth year, so the land will produce a crop large enough for three years,” (Leviticus 25:20-21).

Consider that you are a farmer and you have been given this decree from God to trust His Word.  Now, you’ve probably been sowing and harvesting crops a long time and so you understand how seed time and harvest time work.  You know that a specific amount of seed produces a specifically sized crop.  You also know that one year’s worth of seed to crop ratio does not produce a 1:3 harvest.  So in the fifth year, you have to make a choice.  Do you A) trust God’s Word to produce a 1:3 harvest in the coming year, or B) spend the next year fretting about how you only have enough seed to produce one year's worth of crop, forgetting God's promise to you?

Maybe your issue isn’t about trusting God’s promises, but rather accepting that His Word is final and when Jesus said, “It is finished,” He meant it, (John 19:30).  Maybe you need to forgive someone.  Perhaps you’ve already forgiven them a thousand times, but for some reason, you can’t accept Jesus’ Words that it’s finished and let it go completely.  Who are you holding judgment and resentment against?  A friend, relative, spouse, child, parent?  Yourself?

In order to receive all that God has for you, you must first believe all that He’s said to you.  Jesus said, “It is finished.”  So nail that sin to His cross, allow His blood to cover over it, and let it go forever.  God’s Word says that He “is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,” (Ephesians 3:20).  But in order to receive it, you must first believe it.  When you no longer withhold forgiveness from anyone, including yourself and believe the Word of God without question, you will have truly accepted the fullness of God without exception.

©2012 Heather Potts