God will Increase

I just realized today that my middle name (at least the longer form of it, Josephine) means "God will increase." I think that's cool. God will increase. Lately, I've been thinking a lot about some things that my mentor told me and Nate's shirt. Interesting combination, hey? The first time I met with my mentor, she asked me what she could pray about throughout the week until she saw me again. I told her that I wanted to always be in God's presence and to continually have His thoughts and His words flowing through my mind and mouth; to, instead of being a Sunday Christian, be flowing in His Spirit continually. She told me that people spend so much time and energy trying to "muster up" God's Spirit in them when it's not necessary. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit, which means that we are always, always exposed to it. But that's when Nate's shirt comes in. Nate has a shirt that says "Got Overflow?" What I was looking for was overflow. Carmen told me that to be continually walking in the Spirit, one must first be full of it. Then, one needs to stop making themselves the key thing. Just let God do His thing.

On Friday, I was resting for a while before heading out to Clarkfield. I was thinking about Nate's "Got Overflow?" shirt. And God gave me this:

God, fill me up
From head to toe
Then make me little
So I'll overflow.

I just want to be little so that God can be big and so He can do things through me. I'm a vessel to hold His glory. But I want that glory to be so big that it can't be contained in the confines of the vessel.

I used to feel as if I was too little to contain all my problems. I felt overwhelmed at them. But God is doing a work. My problems, the things of me, are shrinking. And God's Presence, His peace -- basically, everything about God, is growing in me. Pretty soon, the things of me are going to start to diminish even more. I will be only a very small part of who and what I am. The rest will be all about God. And God will increase.