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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
draw closer to the end of Isaiah, we also draw closer to the concept of
grace. Yesterday we spoke much about
forgiveness. Grace comes after
forgiveness. Grace comes when we find
ourselves under the care of God that we do not deserve. In a word, grace comes when we find ourselves
benefitting from the Lord’s provision when we should be writhing under His
wrath.
God’s
provision is the real-time fruit of His grace.
Look at the words that Isaiah gives the Hebrew people. He bids them to come and buy without price from
Him a food that truly satisfies instead of buying the fruit of the world which
leaves one still wanting more. He wants
to provide a teaching for them that lasts.
He wants to provide an everlasting covenant.
However,
I love that God’s provision doesn’t stop with the Hebrew people. God’s provision for one group leads to
further provision for a second group.
God tells the Hebrew people that they will call a nation that they don’t
know because God has glorified them. I
can’t hear these words and not think of how God makes it possible for Gentiles
to come to Him. As God provides an
everlasting covenant through the Hebrew people, He is actually giving provision
to the whole world as well. All we need
to do is be willing to receive that provision.
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