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As requested by my friend Wendy from our Makati Feast community, I'm reposting here my write-up for the Feast Glorietta bulletin of January 20, 2013
Supplied by The Source of All
Good Things
By Millicent Reyes
John Paul Getty, one of the
richest American who ever lived, said this: “If you can count your money, then
you don’t have a billion dollars”.
Well, in the last six months
after I quit my high-paying job and my finances got almost depleted, my
perspective on wealth has certainly changed a whole lot. I learned to count or
value what is essential in my life and not what is impermanent. I thought that
what I had lost was precious when in fact I had gained something that by God’s
Grace has multiplied my abundance manifold: Humility. Humility has gained me
more riches than ever: a better relationship with my Dad and his new family, more
cordiality with my son’s father and his family, a career that lacked prestige
but allowed me more time with my family and with more opportunities to serve in
God’s Kingdom, and humility has even taught me to respect money by managing my
finances to the very cent and living a simple life. Most of all, humility has
taught me that all of my needs have been provided and will continue to be so by
the Source of All Good Things who is the Heavenly Father.
Brother Randy Borromeo aptly began
the first series of talks of the Makati Feast for this year entitled, Guaranteed: Three Things God Promises
You; Talk 1: Supply with his favorite Bible verse from Philippians
4:19, “God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory.” Many
times, particularly when we are at our lowest, we fail to see the Hand of God
working in our lives, providing what we actually need. We pray for a better job
then get depressed when we don’t get it when actually God is teaching us to be
better employees. We pray for freedom from debt yet we despair when our bills
continue to pile up when God is actually teaching us to use money more wisely.
We pray for better relationships and become hopeless when things don’t work out
when God is teaching us to be more forgiving and loving. In all these scenarios
God had already answered our prayers “according to His riches in glory” yet we
fail to see it.
Do you think God doesn't hear
your prayers, your dreams? Of course He does; He is the Architect of all
dreams, the seeds of which He had planted within us! But aside from our eyes
and hearts sometimes not open to the Goodness of the Lord, our current
resources also do not match our dreams, delaying their fulfillment. Brother
Randy shared that we must choose to either “downgrade” our dreams to match our
resources or “upgrade” our resources to match our dreams. Whichever we choose,
it would be God’s Perfect Will for His Will is solely for our goodness and
nothing else.
So always, always remember your
blessings since the adage “Count your blessings” seems an impossible feat now because
after all, God’s Grace outnumbers all the billions of this world.
