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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’m going to look at the lens of provision through all of the
miscellaneous laws regarding the poor and oppressed in this chapter. Don’t take their millstone. Don’t go into their house and claim payment
for a debt. Don’t take their cloak
overnight. Every single one of these
laws – and the others – points us to provision.
After all, if a person has their means for grinding wheat into
flour taken away, how will the access basic food? If their cloak is taken away overnight, how
will they keep warm? If a person goes
into the house of another, what’s to keep them from “taking too much?” Who will provide life for the needy when
their means of living is taken away from them?
This actually speaks to God’s provision and our attention to
it. What are we as human beings about:
us or God? Are we more interested in
demonstrating God’s provision for the poor and oppressed or are we interested
in preying on the poor and oppressed to take for ourselves what they cannot
afford to give?
If we respect the poor and the things that they need to live, are
we not making an evangelistic claim that God’s provision over the poor is more
important than growing our earthly wealth?
Is that not a testimony unto them?
With respect to the poor and the oppressed, how we look at provision can
absolutely lead to mission and ministry and proclaiming God’s grace to them.
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