In ancient times direct communication was the only means possible. Now you have the ability for remote communication by telephone, text, and other methods. These are an immediate and convenient way to communicate across great distances, but who would argue that texting is equal to face-to-face? Given that, how do you rate  the quality of your communications with me? I spoke to Moses face-to-face as a man speaks to his friend. Would you describe your own experience of me as seeing in a glass darkly?

The following is two-way journaling handed in from a Christian Leadership University student taking the course, “Naturally Supernatural.”

Lord, speak to me about the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. How have I been using it? Have I failed to use it?

You have used it on occasion but have largely lived out of a sense of duty and striving to do only what I can do through you. This is a hard lesson to learn especially for those who have been taught from an early age to perform, strive, to do and not to do. My way is so much better. It is the only way of Life. The other is certain death and defeat. You have experienced both the life and the death, but far too often you have experienced the death.

Do you pray for your friends? What about people you know who have departed from the faith and made bad choices? Do you think they are getting what they deserve, and reaping what they have sown? Do you pray for my favor and blessing upon them? Remember that I still love them, and that I loved you while you were yet a sinner. Invoking me on their behalf is a time for mercy and compassion rather than judgment. Wounds are painful and require healing even if they are self-inflicted. Do you remember that I make the sun shine and the rain fall on the just and on the unjust?

Do you always want more? You live in a culture driven by scarcity and acquisition, that doesn’t appreciate the question of how much is enough, if more is always better. But this is not the only possible view. How about a culture of sufficient provision? What if the resources you have in hand were adequate to do what you needed to do? What has been your own life experience? How often have you been unable to do the things that really mattered because you didn’t have enough? I have an unlimited supply for your provision. Can you see the possibilities in what I have already given you?