No God-Experience Is A Waste.
We see this truth clearly in the feeding of the 5,000 men and 4,000 men. The Master ensured that the leftover fragments of bread and fish was accounted for. There were 12 and 7 baskets, respectively. You can be sure that they gave that leftover food to some people. If that happened with just food, what do you think should happen in our spiritual experiences with Him?
God is not a thing; He is not a being that no one can relate with. He loved humankind so much that He had to come as one of them; fragile, human, just so He could redeem them.
If He went through all that divine length to show His love to a world that rejects Him, what won’t He do for you now that you belong to Him? Romans 8:32. No God-experience is a waste. When God speaks to you, it is because He wants you to adhere so you can enjoy the beautiful future that He has planned for you. If He convicts you and rebukes you, it is because you are His child. Hebrews 12:7-8 reads, ‘‘if ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons’’. It is a great blessing for God’s Word to strike you deep in your heart and show you where you need to make changes. Every true God-experience should make us realize how favored we are in God’s hands; it is never to puff us up or leave us feeling “more special” than other believers.
God abhors waste. Nothing and no one depletes in His hands, except you are not in His hands. Every lesson, insight, doctrine, comfort, testimony, message, revelation that you receive from Him, either directly or indirectly, is not for nothing. Others must be impacted. That experience must stir up hope, faith and love in others, not envy or jealousy. You are a goodman. You are a good woman. In the hands of a good person, nothing wastes. The Apostle Paul tells his protegee Timothy in 2nd Timothy 2:2, “And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also”.
Paul kept recounting his “Heavenly vision” till he was killed. It was his personal experience, but he made sure people around felt the passion that he felt. He was persuasive. He spoke with so much zeal that King Agrippa had to cry out in Acts 26, “you are almost persuading me to become a Christian”. This is the idea. Child of God, who are you persuading to believe in Christ like you? Are you repelling faith or are you attracting faith in Christ? Your experience of Christ must never be a waste. Relive it. Talk about it. Tell someone your story. God will take those ordinary moments and make them supernatural in someone’s life. Share your story today.