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As quoted from the book "Victor - Breaking Free From a Victim-Based Society" by John H. Hovis
Page 135.
Have you ever stopped to consider the meaning of the word synergy? I had to look it up to get an exact definition. Here's what I found, Synergy is the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects.
Now that's a definition! I love of the possibility that something as great as God's love, when combined with our lives, can produce an outcome greater than the sum of their separate parts. With god one plus one doesn't equal two one plus one can equal infinity! God is a god of multiplication, not addition.
Victor's have come to realize that the love thats within them isn't something they need to carefully dole out. That love doesn't have limits. It has come from God and therefore is limitless! Victors have grounded themselves on the possibility that they don't have to jealously guard the resources that God has placed in them to change their life, the lives of those around them and quite literally the entire world.
The bible says this about god's love.
“I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness." Jeremiah 31:3 (NIV)
Everlasting an unfailing, two characteristics of the love of God that make victors realize the power behind the synergy of that love in their lives. Same goes for any of the resources that victors use to be a part of the change that is happening all around them. The resources victors give generously are everlasting and unfailing if those resources come from God.
Victim thinkers believe that the resources they choose to be generous with are limited and therefore must be jealously guarded. This puts them in a position of having to judge who deserves to receive the resources the victim thinker want to be generous with. Who is responsible for setting the criteria for making that judgment? All too often it's the victim thinker himself.
It's not that it's wrong for anyone to judge who will and will not receive resources that they have control over in a generous manner. It's just when we are caught in victim thinking that the criteria for making our judgments can be based on principles that have failed us in the past or will fail us in ways that tend to drive us deeper into the victim thinking trap.
When the criteria for generosity are skewed victim thinkers are generous in ways that will make them believe that their life has some value. Generosity can become a tool used by victim thinkers to help them have some sense of fulfillment in their lives.
Those who want to live the life of the victor have realized that generosity can never be a tool for any purpose other than to be a part of the synergy of love God has for us all. What is it that you were guarding in your life today? Is it time, is it your abilities, is it your resources, is it your love? If you feel the need to jealously guard those resources maybe they were not meant to be used for your generous efforts to achieve some result.
Today you have an amazing opportunity to do much more than you were capable of with the resources God has given you. As you are tempted to be generous today, ask yourself, do I have any motives behind my generosity? If so the results are going to be something less than they could be if you were to enter into the fullness of the synergy of love that God has placed in your life.
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