Abundant What? Message by Steve Martin

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Abundant What?

It amazes me of the many types of people there are in the world, and just alone in our nation of the USA. 

As I traveled to Texas in June 2026; went to several America 250 July 4 events later; and hear how my Taiwanese neighbor Jeffrey (age 33) across the street relates to his Vietnamese ER nurse girlfriend Knu, I’ve noticed especially that because we are of His creation, we are different. 

And yet the same.

You can color your hair with many dyes; choose the clothes (or not) to wear; listen to so many genre of music that the airplane doesn’t even have “Christian”… and yet we are all the same.

We want to be loved. We want to be noticed (recognized) and not just another number in someone’s Contact List.

We simply want to live and let live. (A music title sometime back? Or a movie? James Bond maybe?)

But that really isn’t so.

We weren’t created to “just live.” We were each created to live the life our good Lord, Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach, gave us to live.

There was a time I really didn’t believe the verse written in John 10:10, The Message version:

“Jesus told this simple story, but they had no idea what he was talking about. So he tried again.

 “I’ll be explicit, then. I am the Gate for the sheep. All those others are up to no good—sheep rustlers, every one of them. But the sheep didn’t listen to them. I am the Gate.

 Anyone who goes through me will be cared for—will freely go in and out, and find pasture. A thief is only there to steal and kill and destroy.

I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of.”

I believed the first part. But not the second. As the NASB had it, which I had memorized, “abundant life” wasn’t so abundant. Just too many frustrations and difficulties it seemed. Daily.

But now?

With the path to walk on, shown in His Word, I have found that abundant life. Joy, peace, confidence, assurance, hope, faith, love.

Seek the Lord in everything you do. Know of His love and stick close to Him. He awaits us with open arms, to know of His abundant life He has for each of us.

Ahava and shalom,

Steve Martin