Year 4, Day 221: Luke 12

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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.

This chapter has several really great teachings with respect to provision.  In fact, outside of the Lord ’s Prayer – “Give us today our daily bread” – I think this chapter has the most iconic passage about God’s provision.  “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on.  For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing … And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you.”  Or, perhaps you like the verses that come earlier in the chapter.  “And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious about how you should defend yourself or what you should say, for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”

We can’t really miss Jesus’ point in this chapter.  God has everything under control.  What can’t He do?  What can’t He provide?

Oh yeah.  God has everything in control.  And the world hates God for it.  If they hate God enough to destroy His only Son, why would we think that they won’t hate us, too?  But we need not fear.  For God knows our physical needs.  He also knows our spiritual needs, too.  He will give us the words to say in moments when we need them.

That’s God’s provision.  It’s more than food and clothes and shelter.  It’s peace when we need it.  It’s words when we need it.  It’s joy when we need it.  It’s faith when we need it.  That’s provision.

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