God Wants to Spoil You

As Christmas approaches, I have asked my children some ideas for the grandchildren’s presents. I would like to try and get them something they want. As I started writing a little list and doing some research on trying to find some of the items my mind went to what we ask from our God. Not just at Christmas, but every day of the year.

Jesus actually taught us to pray daily for our needs. “Give us this day our daily bread.”

Are we asking God for our needs or our wants, our greatest desires?

In faith, as we mature as Christians, we learn to trust in God and what He gives to us. What is God’s plan for our life? He is the One who knows us better than we even know ourselves. He knows what we need in every moment of every day of our life.

The beautiful thing about God is the extra abundant blessing He gives to each of us over and above what we ask for or need.

There is a beautiful true story of a priest who was assigned every week to go to the food bank to get food for his other fellow priests, brothers and nuns in their community. At food bank you get whatever they have, one week could be rice, spaghetti….

The first week he was asked for a special item – black liquorice. It was for an elderly priest who loved it and was very poorly. The priest who went to the food bank said he could not promise anything because the food bank wasn’t like a supermarket. He went to get the food they needed and lo and behold there were bags of black liquorice! He felt that God was telling them all “I see you, I desire to bless you with your needs and wants.”

The next week he was asked for some German sausage for a particular overseas priest who had not had it in years. Once again, God provided them with German sausage. In the third week a nun asked for some flowers. Father exasperated and told her probably not because it’s a food bank not a florist. But to his surprise there were bunches of flowers when he arrived!

So, the next week, the priest himself, asked God for a particular pastry he had loved as a child, hoping but not expecting. And God blew him away with his provision of these pastries.

The priest’s faith was encouraged, and he felt very humbled that God would spoil him so greatly.

Would we risk asking God to spoil us?

So, when we ask of things for us, this Christmas, God likes us to ask for our needs and wants. Maybe ask for something to be spoilt by God. He’s ready and waiting.

He totally spoilt us by sending his Son and gave us eternal life.

May these jottings from my journal inspire you to believe in and fall in love with Christ- the hope of the world, as stated in Jeremiah 17:7, ‘Blessed is the man who believes and trusts in and relies on the Lord and whose hope and confident expectation is the Lord!’

Love

Rosemary

Every week groups of ladies meet together to chat about the things I raise in my weekly blog post and to chat about life in general. We call these ‘Heart Connect’ groups.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

Who are the people in your life that you love to spoil?

Can you think of a time that God spoilt you? What happened?

What is stopping you from asking God for the desires on your heart?