What was your Zoe moment today?

It's Friday which I love and a beautiful day here in NC, although I want so badly for it to become cool and crisp like fall should be. Today my moment of abundant living can in the form of a hot steamy cup.

Why is it that pumpkin hot goodness causes you to inhale and exhale deeper than you have in days? The comfort of warmth and spice make you feel all things good.

Since we are new on our journey together i wanted to share with you some of my inspiration. Why Zoe you may ask? I found this concept of abundant living years ago while reading a book: (Starbucks should pay me for the advertising :) )

Sweet discusses how Starbucks has made millions off of their ability to create community and that if the church institution could grasp the same concept it could advance and have far reaching impact. Great thought, but what struck me most was Sweet's words about abundant living. John 10:9-10 (NASV) 

 ⁹ "I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture. ¹⁰ The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."

This fullness of experience is what helps make Starbucks successful. But they didn't invent the feeling. Oh no, like everything else, God created this fullness and He sent His Son Jesus Christ to tell us and teach us and challenge us that in Him and through Him we, shamed and separated sinners, can living abundantly in Him. In Him is the fullness of all things and when we surrender ourselves to Him He extends to us, though we are deserving of wrath, the fullness of grace, mercy, compassion, and love. The word "life" in John 10:10 is zwh/ in the Greek, or the transliterated word zoe.

The power of this truth pierced me with a longing to start living and pursueing Jesus abundantly in life. The concept marked me in an Eben-ezer stone kind of way. So much that i wear a ring on my right hand daily as a remebrance.

I guess this blog is going to be a way to record those ways in which we can embrace abundant living. Not to fill us up on the things of this world that just rust and destroy and pass away, but abundance on the things of eternal value.

Tomorrow I am joinging a linky party (i think that is what it is called....step back i'm still new here) that will last the month of October. It is a challenge to bloggers to blog about one topic for 31 days. I hope you enjoy the 31 days of words that will be happening right here!

So, share with me. Have you had a moment of abundant living today? Are you experiencing His fullness?

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