Year 5, Day 186: Philippians 4

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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.

Philippians 4 gives us several really good perspectives on God’s provision in our life.  Of course, the first perspective on provision is the simplest to understand: the things we need in our life.  In Philippians 4 we hear Paul talk about how God has used the Philippians community to meet his needs.  He says that he has no need because they are so willing to partner with God and accomplish His will.  So we see that God does indeed meet our physical needs and He is often willing to use one another to do so.

However, there is more than just physical provision that God supplies.  God provides us with the ability to dismiss anxiety from our life.  He has provided us with an ability to communicate with Him through prayers and supplications.  God provides a peace in our life that surpasses understanding.  I can honestly write this paragraph thinking of times in my life where I should have been anxious and filled with anything but peace – yet God provided an inexplicable peace in my life.

Much like Paul, I feel the need to end by praising God’s name.  He is the author of life.  He is the author of all that is good.  He is the author of the inexplicable moments that defy human reason but are a part of our experience anyways.  May His name be praised forever.

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