God's Love in Action: Provision

I have been trusting and believing in God for a desire of my heart.  This is new for me.  At one time I didn't know if he cared about my desire seeing as how there are people who have needs that need to be met like the hungry villages in Africa or people attacked by Hurricane Katrina.    He told me that he cares about my smallest desire as well as the needs of the world.  Because he is God he can attend to everything at once. 

I fully believe He will provide for my desire but started to feel a little concerned because I saw something I want but it seemed as if I may not have it.  I have been reminding myself that God's highest good for my life includes provision.  I will choose to believe that His highest good for my wants and needs is best and will rest in the reality that I don't know what's best because unlike God I don't know the beginning from the end.  In my faith for my desire and faith in God as a provider for everything I am going to fall into him backwards...almost as if I am on a diving board diving into the deepest ocean.  I can fully trust him even when I can't see.

 

I remind myself of the prayer "God I see this and it looks good.  If it is your highest good for me I pray that you would allow me to have it.  If it is not I thank you for providing your highest good which is for my best."

Matthew 6:25-34

 

25 "If you decide for God, living a life of God-worship, it follows that you don't fuss about what's on the table at mealtimes or whether the clothes in your closet are in fashion. There is far more to your life than the food you put in your stomach, more to your outer appearance than the clothes you hang on your body.

26 Look at the birds, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, careless in the care of God. And you count far more to him than birds.

27 "Has anyone by fussing in front of the mirror ever gotten taller by so much as an inch?

28 All this time and money wasted on fashion--do you think it makes that much difference? Instead of looking at the fashions, walk out into the fields and look at the wildflowers. They never primp or shop,

29 but have you ever seen color and design quite like it? The ten best--dressed men and women in the country look shabby alongside them.

30 "If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers--most of which are never even seen--don't you think he'll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you?

31 What I'm trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God's giving.

32 People who don't know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works.

33 Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.

34 "Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.

 

If you believe God and have faith He will provide for your needs and wants that are within His perfect will. Believe in Him for His best for you and for His highest good.