Poured into your lap

I was driving back from getting groceries yesterday. It's 40 minute drive and I love to sing and pray in the Spirit.

I was thinking about how blessed I feel and that even though our income has not changed that much in the past few years, we seem to have more. But not just money. Our family has more peace, more joy, more grace toward one another. We don't seem to strive like we used to when we hit a rough patch. So I asked the Lord, "Why is it that we just seem more blessed?"

He brought the scripture in Luke 6 that says, "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again."

I was thinking, we have not given that much more in the monetary sense. So, I kept pressing into what the Lord meant by this scripture.

He said, "You receive into your lap. This word bosom is the key to understanding."

I started to think about a lap and really the only time we "have" a lap is when we are resting. I got pretty excited and then asked the Lord if that was what He meant. I felt Him smile because He knew that I understood.

We are blessed more and more as it is poured into our lap because we are resting and focusing on the finished work of salvation that Jesus provided. He did the work; we get to reap the benefits.

Hallelujah!