Salty 'n Bright

It was no accident or mere coincidence that Jesus was flanked by two thieves on the cross. They could have been ones charged with treason or murder, but it was theft.
They took what wasn’t theirs.
And yet, so did he.
A thief prefers himself over others.
But what do you call the one who gives everything in order to take from us all that steals, kills and destroys?
The Savior.

DRINK DEEPLY
“We all drink of the same Holy Spirit” (I Cor. 12:13)…
Some just drink deeper and more often.
If we stoke the fire, we will remain thirsty.

PRESS INTO THE WRESTLE (Gen. 32)
The fear from Jacob's past so intimidated him that he cried out until he had an encounter with the Lord that was life-altering. He limped away from it with a profound gratitude and awe that he saw the Lord and lived. This wasn't a momentary high. He saw differently and walked differently. Before this, Esau's face of rage was all he could see. All the promises and blessings were just words next to the fear of the confrontation coming. But after the encounter, even his greatest fear became as the face of of God. He stepped into a realm of humility that was bathed in grace. And a restoration that should have taken years, in a moment looked just like God.

The Lord's Supper highlights to us a spiritual process on the heart of God. The Blessing. The Breaking. The Giving. Jesus also showed this with the loaves and fish and we see it through the lives of the saints of both the Old and New Testaments. And didn't the Father show the same process as he gave his blessing over His son, allowing the breaking of his body to give us salvation, healing, deliverance, and wholeness?

The Breaking often seems to fly in the face of The Blessing. But what is blessed cannot be multiplied until it is broken.
And The Giving is a multiplication that brings strength, not depletion. It leaves leftovers.

Does this happen by chance? Exodus 1 tells us that the more Israel was oppressed the more they multiplied. Amid their breaking, they leaned into intimacy and flourished at an uncontrollable rate. What we lean into during The Breaking will either birth The Blessing or abort the Lord's desires towards us.

What does the breaking look like? The breaking of our pride, comfort, ungodly ties, wrong self-view, self-reliance, faulty purpose, narcissism. It may come in many forms, but our hearts will tell an accurate tale.

Let's thank Him today for His process in our lives, lean into intimacy with Him and allow Him to multiply the little we hold.