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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.
It
shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that I am focusing on provision on a day
where Paul is talking about charity and giving to the needs of the poor in
Jerusalem. After all, Paul makes a great
case in these two chapters about giving generously. Paul makes a great case for people who give
because God has been generous to them.
After all, we serve a God who can manage it so that those who gather
much have just enough and those who gather little find that they have no
lack. God knows our needs. He provides.
But if He
provides and we are to imitate Him, should we also not be generous? What better way to demonstrate God’s love
than by giving without cause to those who are in need? What better thing is there in life than to be
the very hands and feet of God’s provision into the life of another?
Before we
leave this topic, I do feel that it is important to mention that we aren’t just
talking about money, though. God needs
more of us than our pocketbook. God
provides us time that we can use in the lives of others. God provides us talents that we can use into
the lives of others. God does way more
than provide financial resources so that we can eat and clothe ourselves. God provides wisdom, kindness, joy, peace,
compassion, love, intellect, patience, and a whole host of skills that we can
use to be a part of God’s provision for others in their life! What a generous God we serve!
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