I started listening to a YouTube video as I was in the shower. I don’t know why I thought that I’d be able to hear it with the water running. I heard some indiscernible sounds and something like, ‘so much more’ was said. At that point I had an image in my mind of a metal farm bucket filled with water. I felt like God was saying to me that I’ve barely skimmed the surface of what is available to me. Later, I realized, it was not only for me, but for the church. There was an invitation in it. I have seen God do amazing things, many of us have in our lives. I felt God say, “You haven’t seen anything. You’ve barely taken a handful, when there is so much more available to you.” There was a highlight on ‘available’. It is available, open, even wanting to be taken. He is waiting for us to take Him at his Word! He wants to be known more.
The water was in a metal farm bucket. I asked the Lord, “Why a farm bucket? That doesn’t seem very clean, or holy, or what I’d expect.” It was a clean, new bucket I saw, but still, I don’t equate a farm bucket with those things. Then the thought, ‘What is a farm bucket for?’ It is for feeding. It is for transporting, and giving away for others to receive needed sustenance. As believers, everything that we receive will be given back out. We had a small family farm at one time, of which I honestly didn’t have a huge amount of engagement with, but enough. We didn’t generally use the buckets for a handful, or even a cupful of water or grain. They were used to pour it all out. Then they were quickly refilled and poured all out again. This is repeated daily. There is never a day that they aren’t used, because water and food are necessary for life.
A farm bucket is also filled as full as you can carry. When the bucket is full of water, it will often splash out as we walk. Water is left on our feet, and on the ground where we walk. Sometimes, when someone is walking close to us, they might get wet as well. Sometimes, two of us may even get together to carry a heavy bucket.
At first I saw the contrast of a handful of water taken, to the bucket full. That little handful is nothing in a big bucket. That bucket is filled from a source. Now imagine the bucket in comparison to the ocean. There was such an overwhelming sense of something so big and so unimaginable. There was no earthly source to draw a connection from. This is where we stand. We simply cannot imagine what God has for us. This is not speaking of just his blessings or miracles. Yes, they are there, but this is about Him. He is our source, our inheritance, and our portion. I felt that there is a deeper place of intimacy with him that we have not imagined. We are being invited into this open place of availability with the Father. Earthly fathers are not always available, but our heavenly father is completely open and available to us. As we come and richly partake of His goodness, that goodness is going to ‘splash’ out all around us.
1Cor. 2:9 But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
Melicia Evans 