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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
open up the last chapter of Haggai, we hear a neat message from God. The work has started up, but it is slow. The work is hard. They didn’t have machines upon which they
could rely. The Hebrew people had to
spend time protecting themselves from the people in the land who had come in
when the Hebrew people were dragged off into captivity. The work is starting, but it is slow and hard
work.
In this
context, God wants to tell the people that He is there for them. God wants the people to understand that He
will provide and He is the ultimate source of their provision. So long as their eyes are focused upon God
and His desires, the Hebrew people can be sure that God will be there with
them, ensuring that they will have what they need to survive.
This is a
great chapter. Doing the work of the
Lord is sometimes hard. It sometimes
feels tedious. We don’t always know when
it will end. It can be frustrating from
time to time because we have a human perspective rather than a divine one. But God is always with us. When our eyes rest upon God’s desire for us,
we can be assured that God will provide what we need for the completion of His
will.
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