Plentiful!

    Greetings to you in Jesus.  It's fall!!!  We have been having perfect weather up here of cool mornings and evening with warmer afternoons.  I love walking out to 40's in the mornings and then feeling the sun's warmth of the 60's or 70's in the afternoons.  I did have to laugh at a couple walking out of the hotel across from my apartment this morning is winter coats and sweaters.  I just chuckled and sighed, "Southerners".  The trees are turning to beautiful colors of orange, yellow, and red.  This really is the best time of the year.  I even have a doe right behind my office most of yesterday.  Needless to say, I am ready to go hunting!
    I went to the JV football game on Monday and plan to go to the varsity game tomorrow evening.  I didn't realize how much I have missed watching football games on fall evenings.  So glad to be a part of a community again.  However, they are not a football town so they don't take it as seriously as I do.
     I was reading my devotion this morning and the Psalm was Psalm 130.  I love this Psalm and normally my attention goes straight to the watchmen line repeated twice.  However, this morning I caught something new.  My attention was shifted to verse 7 which reads, "O Israel, hope in the Lord! For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption."  Those last two words really hit me in a different way today.  PLENTIFUL redemption.  I always knew my redemption is in the Lord and focused on how He accomplished this through His Son Jesus.  However, I don't think I have ever really thought about it being plentiful.  Not with that word anyway.  We live in a word of plenty.  Everything around us seems to be in plenty.  We go to the super stores and see aisle after aisle of shelves full of food and never once worry about it running out.  We don't worry about the opposite of plenty, or scarcity, for anything in our lives.  So why would God's redemption be any different.  But what if God's redemption wasn't plentiful?  What if His redemption was scarce?  What if we had to compete for His limited love and salvation?  What would our world look like then?
    It's a scary thought, but thanks be to God these are all only hypothetical questions because His Word reminds us His love, salvation, and redemption are not scarce, but truly are plentiful.  Plentiful enough for all of us who are already in His salvation through Christ, but also plentiful enough for all of mankind if they would so believe.  So then this becomes even more powerful, because it is not only good news for us, but for all people.  Not only do we not have to worry about it for ourselves, but we can confidently tell others that God's love is plentiful enough to include them as well.  Wheat an awesome God we have that freely offers such amazing and gracious love plentifully.