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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.
I’m going to stick with the theme of provision again today. The sacrificial system always gets such a bad
rap. Don’t get me wrong. I’m glad we don’t have to sacrifice those
animals. As the spiritual leader of a
group of people, I’m glad I don’t have to do all the slaughtering that the
Levites and priests had to do. So I’m
grateful to live when I do; but that doesn’t mean I cannot appreciate the sacrificial
system for what it truly does.
Let’s consider a point for a second. If God expects me to sacrifice a goat, I
need to have a goat. If God expects me
to sacrifice an ox, a goat, a lamb, some flour, and some oil then I had
actually best live in a reasonable prosperous land. To make those sacrifices will take a farm,
not just some money. To make the
sacrifices God expects, He has to put me in a place where such sacrifices can
even be accomplished! He has to put me
in a place where the ground can sustain people, herds, and crops!
Before you get me wrong, I’m not trying to preach a prosperity
Gospel. I’m not saying that God prospers
those who love Him more – or those who sacrifice to Him more. What I am trying to say is that God is a
generous God. If God places us
underneath an expectation, He is His infinite power will make a way for that
expectation to happen. Sure, we can
still squander His provision and abuse His generosity. But the reality is that He is still generous
in the first place. The sacrificial
system of the Hebrew people speaks loudly to the generous hand of a God who
desires to grant us His daily provision.
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