What If You've Been Surrounded by Abundance All Along?

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When I was 18 years old, I picked a fight with my dad and decided I didn't need him anymore.

Three days into my grand plan for independence, I sat down and did the math. Minimum wage. Rent. Car insurance. Cable. Food. I hadn't even gotten to furniture yet. And somewhere in the middle of that reality check, it hit me — my dad had been doing so much more for me than I had ever noticed. I had been surrounded by his provision, his care, his covering — and I had been completely blind to it.

That moment changed how I saw everything.

I believe that's exactly what happened to David when he wrote Psalm 65.

Abundance Is Not Getting More — It's Finally Seeing More

This Psalm is what scholars call a "harvest Psalm" — a song written during the season when the people of Israel would bring the first fruits of their crops into the temple as an act of worship and gratitude. David takes us on a walk: from the temple, out into the city, and finally into the open fields. And at every stop, his eyes open a little wider to something God has been doing all along.

Here's the big idea I want you to hold onto: Abundance is not about getting more from God. Abundance is about finally seeing how generous God has always been.

God hasn't changed. His generosity hasn't increased. What changes is our ability to see it.

Start Where David Started — With Access, Not Assets

What surprises me about this Psalm is where David begins. Not in the fields. Not counting the harvest. He starts in the temple, and the first abundance he names has nothing to do with grain.

"Blessed is the one whom you choose and bring near, to dwell in your courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the holiness of your temple." — Psalm 65:4

David is overwhelmed not by what God gave him, but by the fact that God let him in. That the God who is big enough to create mountains and calm seas — that same God called David to come near. To be in His presence.

The word David uses for "satisfied" here is the Hebrew word that most often describes the feeling of being completely full after a meal. That kind of satisfied. The kind where you push back from the table and say, "I couldn't take another bite."

David is saying: just being near God should be enough to fill us completely.

I think a lot of us have this backwards. We go out into life looking for evidence of God's gifts, scanning the horizon for the harvest, asking God to show us His provision. But God says — come find My presence first. I firmly believe you cannot appreciate God's gifts until you first appreciate God's presence.

The Tracks Left Behind

After the temple, David walks outside and his vision expands. He sees the mountains. He thinks about the seas. He watches the morning and evening "shout for joy." And then he lands on a verse that has become my favorite in the entire passage:

"You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with abundance." — Psalm 65:11

Those "wagon tracks" are one of the most vivid images in all of Scripture to me. Picture a harvest so abundant that the wagons hauling it out of the fields were so heavy they sank down into the soil, leaving deep ruts behind — and as they rolled, the overflow was spilling out, reseeding the ground with what couldn't even be carried.

That's what God's abundance looks like. His very footprints drip with goodness.

It reminds me of the moment when Moses begged God to show him His face. God said, "You can't see Me directly — My goodness would overwhelm you." So instead, God hid Moses in the cleft of a rock, walked by, and let Moses see the trail He left behind. And when Moses came down from that mountain, he was glowing — just from seeing God's footprints.

The wagon tracks were always there. David didn't discover something new. He finally noticed something that had been happening all along.

The Condition of the Soil

Jesus once told a story about a farmer scattering seed. Some fell on a hard path. Some on rocky ground. Some among weeds. Only the seed that fell on good soil produced a harvest. When His disciples asked Him to explain it, Jesus made clear: the farmer scatters seed abundantly and indiscriminately. God is always pouring out.

The question was never about God's generosity. It was always about the condition of the soil.

Sometimes we're too hardened to receive it. Sometimes it sits on the surface and gets snatched away before we notice. Sometimes it gets choked out by everything else competing for space in our lives. But God? God keeps scattering. God keeps pouring. The abundance is not the variable — our awareness is.

What Tracks Are You Leaving?

There's an old song my dad used to sing that has stayed with me all these years. The chorus goes: "May the footprints that we leave lead them to believe, and the lives we live inspire them to obey."

That's my prayer. Not just for myself, but for all of us.

What if the tracks we leave behind — in our homes, our relationships, our everyday lives — what if they dripped with the abundance of God? The deeper the ruts, the heavier the load we were carrying. And the heavier the load, the more evidence that God has been generous with us.

Your story is still being written. There are still tracks to leave, still prayers to pray, still blessings to pour into the lives of the people around you.

God is not done with your story yet.

So this week, I want to invite you to slow down and look for the tracks. Where has God already been walking in your life? What abundance have you been surrounded by that you haven't yet named? Start with His presence — and watch how the provision begins to look different.

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