If you’ve been reading my posts on living the poured out life, then you know that the focus has been on three major areas, all of them found in Jeremiah 48:11. They are,
I have another thought on this subject. How do we balance our lives between full and empty, because we really do need both? What does that kind of life look like? Well, I think we get an excellent answer in Philippians 4:12.
It says, “I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound. In everything and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. “
The statement that Paul makes about being “in all things instructed both to be full and to be hungry” is awesome. Think of it; this is the Lord’s instruction in all things! Full and hungry, abounding and suffering need.
This is my position: I must be full, yet I must be hungry. Why? Because there’s more, that’s why. I must abound, and yet I must suffer need too. Suffer need? You might ask. Yes, suffer need. Why? Because there are lots and lots and lots of needs in the world, it might not be my need, and that is exactly why I must abound, because, through me the needs of this world can be met.
This is what it means to live a poured out life. To be the one through whom God meets needs in this world. I will live my fullest, and to the greatest measure of abounding, only when I am hungriest and when I am touched with the needs around me.
