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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.
As we
turn back to the Old Testament and the psalms, I’m going to stick with the topic
of provision. It is a natural topic in
the psalms, and it makes for a very good tie between the Old Testament and the
New Testament. Yesterday we heard Paul
praising the provision of the Lord for protecting him and providing for him even
when things are bleak. Today we hear the
psalmist essentially giving us the exact same message!
Look at
all the things to which David ascribes as provision form the Lord. The Lord provides forgiveness when David
repents. The Lord provides protection
and security when people come up against him and either slander his name or even
try to do away with him! The Lord
provides grace even when close friends betray David. The Lord provides His presence when we are in
most need.
However,
I skipped over an essential point in the very beginning of the psalm. From a human perspective, we would assume
that God would protect the king of the land.
After all, that’s what gods of human origin do. They protect and prosper those who are most
likely to give back to them lavishly.
Gods of human origin naturally look out for the most prosperous because
of what they can get out of the exchange.
But not
so with the one true God. Our God
watches over the poor. Our God watches
over those who from the perspective of this world can offer Him nothing in
return. This is because our God is a
true God and does not reflect the human agenda.
Our God is not caught up in the things of this world but rather He is
caught up in righteousness and grace and glory.
That is our God. God provides
even for the lowest among us.
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