When People Underestimate You, Are They Right?
Getting more than you bargained for. That’s what all of our scriptures are about today.
And it’s not a concept that is very familiar in our capitalist society. We are used to paying an agreed upon price, and receiving exactly what we’ve paid for, no more and no less.
I sometimes wonder if we carry that consumer mentality into our relationships as well.
If I make dinner x number of times this week, my partner will mow the lawn without having to be reminded.
If I attend x number of recitals or soccer games of my grandchildren, my daughter will pick up the phone when I call her.
If I read x chapters of the Bible this week, God will answer my prayers.
That’s not how God’s economy works.
The Greek root from which we get the word economy means household and refers to how people manage the day to day finances and organization of their homes and families.
And God’s economy has a very strange balance sheet.
Things are simply not predictable with God.
Two plus two does not always equal four.
It often equals five, or a hundred and five, or a purple elephant. Continue reading