Extravagance

Just finished my last paper and after the stuff I have experienced over the past three papers thought I would share with you guys a little bit about extravagance. Just googled the word extravagance and it gave this meaning "unrestrained excess..."

These past couple of weeks I feel God has provided unrestrained excess in my life. From his lavish grace, with me making a fool of myself almost on a daily basis, but He sees me through a different pair of shades. I think today was just the topping on the cherry. Just a bit of background, I ain't the most hard working person on the planet  (more inclined to lazy). But this year I have made it a point to focus well on my studies and make sure I have everything on lockdown. I became very confident in my abilities, knew the right study patterns and genrally did what was expected of me. But then exam time came and with a hectic 3 weeks prior to my exams I didn't have that smug confidence I always had. I felt I was on shaky ground nowhere really to turn to.  I literally felt I was loosing everything that I had worked hard for.

But then sitting watching telly the other day Joel Osteen came up and started speaking about successful people. Gave the example of Nebuchadnezzur(don't know if spelling is right), how in the early days of truimph he honoured the Lord. But when it became a norm for him to succeed he looked to himself and that led to his downfall. And like a light bulb in my head i felt God saying, "Have you gotten so used to succeeding that you think it depends on you."
And thats what we are like sometimes, we forget that getting to the highs we are wasn't by our ingenious five year plan. But it was a result of God's EXTRAVAGANCE. He is our source and wellspring, in good times and in bad.

Maybe you were like me in the middle of exams or you reading this and stuff just ain't coming together in your life. You feel you have failed cause you havn't tried hard enough... Just don't forget that God is Extravagant in al his wasy...

Peace

Tau