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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.
Every
time that I read Hebrews 4 I stop and ponder this idea that the work of the
Lord is done. After all, on the seventh
day, God rested. God knew that His work
was complete. Complete means finished.
Of
course, that doesn’t mean that God isn’t still at work in the world. Of course He is! God is working in you and in me. God is speaking through His people. God is calling people to Him continuously.
But the
work of God is done. Creation is
done. God knew that creation would fall,
so He planned to bring His Son.
Redemption has come. We know the
whole story of salvation. We are waiting
for it to be taking into final reality, but we know the whole story. The work of salvation is complete. God continues to call people into that
salvation, but the work itself is finished.
Forgiveness is ours if we desire to embrace it.
This
really is a neat perspective on provision.
Even as God was completing the work of creation He had a plan for our
provision. Even as people were falling
away from Him into sin, God was building a bridge back to Him. This is the God we know and love and serve. His provision is complete. He knows what we need the most. He knows that He needs us to make the way to
Him possible. He knows everything else
we need, too.
One more
point before I finish for the day. The
author of Hebrews gives us a great perspective on Christ. God knows what we need because we have a
great high priest in Christ who came and who was tempted as we were
tempted. God knows hunger. He knows pain. He knows abandonment. He knows sorrow. He knows disappointment. He knows what it is like to deal with the
sickness and death of people around us.
He can provide because He knows.
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