SEEK YE FIRST

Why it is so hard to believe that our supply is already present within us?

It wasn't all that hard to grasp that all the kindness I'll ever need is already within me...all that is needed to show it forth is to use it. Same goes with patience, love, understanding, peace. If it is not within, where do we go to get some? God does not gift us from without...as in, walks up and hands us a cup of kindness to pass on to someone else in need.

My breakthrough came with supply when I thought of Grandma Moses. In imagination, I see her for all of her productive life, a farmer's wife...which is no easy job. Then, in her much later years, her children and husband gone, just to pass the time of day, she picks up a brush and some oils and paints a picture. And becomes rich and famous.

Her supply was always there, within her. I doubt she picked up the brush and oils with the thought of earning money. I don't know her age when first she painted, but she was called "Grandma" for a reason...as in, she was old, too old to be thinking of a new career, I'm guessing. So, chances are she painted for herself, maybe simply to express the spiritual nature of her own being.

There's the answer to "seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and all these things shall be added unto you." If we're seeking to know our supply is within us in order to be rid of fear of financial insecurity, we're going down that wrong road again.

It's impossible to be free of fear of anything by shoring up against that which we fear...that just nurtures the fear...solidifies it, actually.

We become free of fear in the moment we know God is...in the moment and for the moment. Then we continue to seek ye first....

Thank you.