gift after gift after gift

from John 1:16-18
a meditation

"We all live off his generous bounty"
everyone-saint and sinner, lost and found, critic and cheerleader
everything comes from God, everything we have, we own, we receive, we control, we delight in and we hate, we wrestle with and we reconcile to, everything

"gift after gift after gift"
what are your gifts?  what are mine?  How is a gift defined?
Is it what I've gained through skill,
is it what I've mastered through talent?
is it unspoken and unannounced, or does it scream and blurt out?
is it in things or in tasks?  people or in relationship?

"We got the basics from Moses"
-the law was given
-blessing with obedience
-curses from rebellion
-the foundation was established, return to it, review it, know it and live it

"And then this exuberant giving and receiving, 
endless knowing and understanding-all of this came through
Jesus, the Messiah"
completing Moses' beginning, Jesus is endless endings
establishing covenant, Jesus confirms it
all expression of joy and fulfillment, destiny and purpose, all this...comes through Jesus
and it keeps on coming

"This one-of-a-kind-God-Expression, who exists at the very heart of the Father, has made him plain as day."
Do you want God?
Do you want to know the heart of the Father?
then know Jesus, follow Jesus, seek Jesus, obey Jesus, live Jesus, taste of Jesus, express Jesus, love Jesus...

again and again and again as the
gift after gift after gift pours out.

Seek it with everything.