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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.
God’s
provision is amazing. He knows what we
need and when we need it. Quite often, even
while He knows what we need God supersedes that very need into the realm of
surplus. I’m not saying we worship God
because He gives us everything. But He
knows the difference between a need and a want.
And He meets our needs.
Look into
the chapter. The Hebrew people are
obedient to God. They are building His
temple in spite of persecution around them.
When people go and try to stir up trouble with King Darius, God takes
care of His people. Darius not only
writes a letter to the persecutors to get them to stop hindering the work, but
they also are told that the work is to be paid for out of the royal treasury! Talk about windfall!
These
Hebrew people now have the verbal and financial backing of the king of
Persia. That’s provision indeed. They have all that they need to finish the
job. And they do finish it in obedience.
Before we
leave this topic of provision, though, let’s look at one more thing. Look how the people respond. They worship God. These are people who hadn’t been able to
celebrate the Passover for generations.
The celebrate God’s provision by worshipping Him. That is worth noting. We should take God’s gifts and toss them
aside or use them unthinkingly. God’s
provision should draw out our praise for Him.
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