Favor

Favor is fought over. Favor is envied. Favor is obvious. Favor is inarguable. Favor is wasted. Favor is misunderstood. Favor is granted. Favor is found. Favor needs to be leveraged.

It's how Moses got an audience with Pharaoh. It's how Joseph got out of prison and into the palace. It's how Noah and his family were spared. It's how I am were I am.

You can say you are where you are because you are lucky. You can say that you got there because of hard work. Me? I can't say any of those things, rather I guess what I really mean is that I won't.

I am so blessed. My family is blessed. It seems like we just stumble into supernatural blessings. We don't deserve it, we just have it. It extends to every area of my life. Not one area. Not several areas. It extends to every area of my life.

Here's the catch. I don't want to receive God's favor. Huh?

I want to leverage it. I want to take it out for a spin.

It's just like the money that God gives us. I don't want to have it...I want to use it.

I think there are today and have been many people who have God's favor and stay content to just keep it. I don't want to be one of them.

We named my second son Samuel. The bible says of Samuel that he grew in favor with God and with man. Samuel is not meant to just have God's favor. He is meant to steward it...to grow in it.

And so are we.