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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.
Most
days, my capacity to think is my undoing.
When I think, I make plans. When
I think, I look to the future and try and determine how conversations will go,
how the activities of the day will go, what foods I’ll eat, what purchases I
want to make throughout the next few weeks, and things like this. When I think, I inherently make dreams about
my desires.
Now, don’t
get me wrong. I don’t genuinely believe
that there is anything wrong with looking to the future for hope. I think God wants us to enjoy the life ahead
of us and our opportunity to live in His creation. The problem isn’t that I do these
things. The problem is my motivation and
my focus when I do them.
You see,
quite often when I’m looking into my future I’m planning how I want things to
go. I’m setting myself up for as much
success as I can grab. The problem with
this is that it is so easy to forget God in it all! It is so easy to have my dreams and
aspirations occupy so much of my mind that I forget God’s aspirations. Of course, God’s aspirations for my life are
far superior to anything I can conceive anyways.
The deep
problem with this is that when I forget God’s desire for my life I also forget
that I am only where I am in life because of God’s provision already happening
in my life. I am who I am only because
of what God has done for me.
This
truly is the point of this chapter in Isaiah.
The problem with the world is that human beings rely upon themselves and
the people around them more than they rely upon God. But who among us can honestly predict the
future? Which of our idols can genuinely
provide for us and prepare us for the days to come? No, it is God who provides best.
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