Spiritual Journey Blog

There is a quiet struggle that many people of faith never say out loud. We want to feel God. We want to hear Him clearly. We want confirmation that He is near. But most days feel ordinary. No burning bushes. No loud voice from heaven. No unmistakable signs. And so we begin to wonder…“Is God even speaking to me?”

You don’t feel God's presence because there is too much noise in your day-to-day routine to hear him. We want the sky to crack open. We want Him to say, "Michele, do this." When we don't get the pyrotechnics, we assume we’ve been met with the same cold spiritual silence the Israelites felt during four centuries of slavery. Remember, Moses wasn't hunting for a miracle that day; he was just trying to keep track of his sheep.

Worldly abundance is often defined as a "very large quantity" of things like time, money, or patience. However, the problem with "more" is that there is never a ceiling; extra time is eventually filled and extra money is spent, causing that sense of abundance to slip away. In juxtaposition, spiritual abundance is about God’s grace being sufficient even in the middle of a mess.

The worldly view of abundance is having more stuff. Webster's dictionary actually defines it as “a very large quantity of something.” The problem with more is that there is never a ceiling for needing more. It happens slowly. Eventually, the extra time is filled, the extra money is allocated or spent, and you find your abundance slipping away. In juxtaposition, a spiritual abundance is all about God’s grace being sufficient in the middle of the mess.