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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.
This chapter
is an analogy to idolatry. In this
chapter, both Israel (the northern kingdom) and Judah (the southern kingdom)
are compared to virgin women. Although
God loved these women very much, they lusted after other things and other
people. They want what the world has
around them. They are not satisfied with
God; they want the world.
At its
heart, this is the issue of idolatry.
But at its core, this is fundamentally an issue of provision. God will provide for our needs. He will grant us His provision upon us. He is a gracious and loving God. He will meet us where we need Him to be.
The question
that remains is whether or not we are content with God’s provision. If we are content, then we will walk with the
Lord and obey His commands. But when we
are not content, we lust after that which the world has but God does not provide. We become idolatrous because we are not satisfied
with God’s provision.
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