I Feel Like I’ve Won The Lottery

By Sheri Del Core

Imagine the feeling of winning the lottery! I get that feeling fairly frequently, when after a brief drifting of my mind and energies I come back to the awareness that Jesus is in me, Jesus is for me, Jesus wants me and Jesus loves me.

I’m often caught up in my own agenda -- consumed by life’s ever changing and often challenging circumstances. Then suddenly and blessedly, it hits me like a sleeper wave. “Whoa! I’ve got Jesus!” This surge of recall floods out any other consuming thoughts and turns my whole perspective around.

It’s hard to believe I can be so sidetracked that I actually forget that I’m rich. It will slip my mind for a while that I am the daughter of the most-high King. It takes my breath away and I get this ear-to-ear grin when reality washes over me. Really, I’m not a stupid person but I confess that I must be like that man in James’ analogy, who looks in the mirror and then goes away and forgets what he looks like. That verse always made me think, “Poor sap, I’m glad I’m not that dense!” Nevertheless, I must be if I wander enough to have that lottery winning feeling so often. The sudden grasp of the dazzling riches I possess in just being His, becomes all the more noticeable when the prior focus was on my own needy circumstances. I am a rich woman indeed and I love to bask in the riches of my inheritance!

And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are god’s possession—to the praise of his glory. Ephesians 1:13-14

Sheri Del Core writes from Aptos, California. sheridc@pacbell.net