Overflowing Love
Hello friends and welcome back to Abounding In Love! Are you tired of definitions? I hope not because we have two more words I want to define before we get into the meat of this series!
Abound: to be more than enough; to overflow.
Yes, I know we defined abound in the last blog, but we have not covered 'enough' or 'overflow', which I feel is also important in this series. Today we define overflow! Remember to look out for key words in bold as we go. (In the last blog I forgot to put the word 'enough' in bold, so 'enough' is actually a key word, sorry guys.)
The following definitions are from Google. Overflow:
flooding or flowing over a surface or area
With this definition I can picture Jesus' blood flowing or flooding (in an abounding amount) over us and our sins; covering us with that overflowing love.
Over the edge, off the side, under and over it flows. Nothing in sight can stop it. Nothing in sight can remain in its wake without getting washed white. Nothing may remove it. Nothing may ignore it forever. Eventually every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord. He is the Lord of lords and the King of kings. He is more than enough. (That my friends was from the Lord, not me.)
(especially with a liquid) flowing over the brim of a receptacle
So full that the contents go over the sides
My cup overflows...
be very full
Oh how it feels to be very full of the promise of Jesus, very full of that Holy Ghost fire, and very full of love.
to fill or become filled beyond capacity
If you ask Him to fill you and know Jesus to be Lord, this is what He does. He will fill you until you become filled beyond capacity!
to fill space up and spread beyond it's limits
This reminds me of a song by Jesus Culture, "Holy Spirit, you are welcome here. Come flood this space and fill the atmosphere." Flood! Fill! Overflow!
capable of being overflowed
We have to have a willing heart.
Credit to another blogger:
{I just had to mention the overflow in the Bible, but that could be a series all it's own! Besides, I think another blogger, by the name of Paula, has this better explained than I could. I will link that blog here:
I do want to add one thing that she said while explaining the overflow:
"I imagine it to be like standing under a waterfall where all else fades away and you're drenched in the magnitude of God's glory."
I think that is just an excellent way of phrasing it and I want to give credit where credit is due.}
An Arithmetic Overflow:
The last thing I want to touch on is an arithmetic overflow. An arithmetic overflow is the result of a calculation that exceeds the memory space designated to hold it. Because of this, you can add two negative numbers together and get a positive. Now I am no mathematician, but I do understand negatives and positives, in math and in daily life.
You maybe asking, "What does this have to do with God?" Well, this may be a stretch, but I know when Moses and the Israelites were escaping Egypt, they were between two negatives; meaning they were smack dab in-between the Egyptian army, who were chasing them, and the vast, seemingly unmovable Red Sea. Two negatives were added together to seemingly produce a negative, but God made a way! God gave Moses the ability to spilt the Red Sea and an overflow happened.
'An arithmetic overflow is the result of a calculation that exceeds the memory space designated to hold it.' God can exceed space, can fill space, can overflow into space and do the impossible.
My friends, I hope you find joy in that today.
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