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Discipleship Focus: Provision
- Provision: God gives us what we truly need. God knows our needs better than we can know them. We learn to trust God to provide for us.
I seem to be in a mood lately to write much on the topic of
provision. But I really shouldn’t be
surprised at this. As Moses is given
this farewell speech, it makes sense that he would focus on topics like
provision. The Hebrew people are about
to go from wandering nomads to inheritors of a fertile land. They need this advice or they will stumble
and fall away from God. Which, for the
record, they do anyway.
The second half of this chapter is truly all about this idea of
provision. Moses tells people that the
king should not acquire too many horses or too many women and that the king
needs to write his own personal copy of the Law. All of these speak to what drives our life.
You see, in order for a king to collect many horses, he’ll need to
be wealthy. He’ll have to make acquiring
money a primary objective of his empire.
In order for a king to acquire more than one wife – or worse, a whole harem
– they will need to have both wealth and lust for more than they need. Kings with wealth and harems lead to
societies where greed and hoarding are valued.
Such societies are corrupt and self-serving. God does not want people who think only of
themselves.
Rather, God wants us to trust in His provision. God wants us to remember that all that we
have comes from Him. He wants us to
remember that He can supply us of all our needs better than we can supply them
to ourselves. He doesn’t want us
amassing wealth and creating corrupt societies of self-service. When we keep ourselves lean we are far more
likely to remember that God is the origin of a truly satisfying and sustaining
life.
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