To Satisfy In Excess
March 1, 2007
Greetings, Prayer Team!
Last Thursday, it snowed. The snow followed a few balmy, spring-like days, and there were those around who bemoaned the wintry whiteness even while we all praised its beauty.
“It’s a sure sign of spring!” I gleefully exclaimed. (I may have even jumped up and down and clapped my hands.) “Winter and spring always fight it out like that.”
The weather stayed cold and gray for yet another week. Today it has already snowed four times and hailed once, with sunshine mixed in during and around the snow and hail. But that’s just like March. When the elements fight it out that dramatically all in one day, you know spring is near, even at the door. I can hardly contain my excitement—the box of wild flower seeds on my desk waits for the very moment “in early spring after all danger of frost.”
The buds on the trees and the bulbs coming out of the ground are ready, too. The very moment it warms up just a bit, they’ll blossom forth in all their fullness. They can hardly contain themselves. (We tricked some lilac stems already, by the way. Little suckers cut off and stuck in water are opening their tiny leaves on my desk.) Oh, how we’ll enjoy them!
That’s the way it works with all kinds of blessings God has for us. They’re here now (even winters have their graces), and there are more and more and more just around the corner. They can hardly contain themselves:
“I will satiate [to satisfy fully or to excess] the soul of the priests with abundance, and My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the LORD.” Jeremiah 31:14.
Won’t it be exciting to see how God satiates the Streams of Light campaign this spring?
On behalf of Patsy Wagner,
Heidi C. Corder
Development Assistant