Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. (Matthew 6:31, 32) NKJV.
Let us trust
God to care for us! This was the life that Jesus lived.
He would not
even make stones into bread; nor eat until His Father bade Him and sent the
angels to minister to Him. He speaks out of His heart when He bids us to trust
our Father's care.
It is better
to trust in God than to accumulate riches. The moth and rust destroy, thieves
steal, and all earthly goods are perishable and precarious. How many have
placed their savings in stocks and shares, in banks and companies, and have lost
every penny! While others who have been unable to save and have lived to help
their fellow-men, have found that God has made provision for them and carried
them even in their old age. Even to your old age, I am He, And even to
gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; Even I will carry,
and will deliver you. (Isaiah 46:4) NKJV.
Trust in God
gives clearness of vision. When we are thinking partly of doing God's work in
the world, and partly of lining our own nest, we are in the condition of the
man whose eyes do not look in the same direction. There is a squint in our
inner vision. We are endeavoring to serve two masters, and our judgment is
therefore distorted. Who has not often experienced this? You have tried to determine
God's will, or to form a right judgment about your life, but constantly your
perception of duty has been obscured by the thought that, if you decided in a
certain direction, you would interfere with your interests in another. Your eye
has not been single, and you have walked in darkness. When, however, you feel
so absorbed in God's interests that you are indifferent to your own, all
becomes clear, and you leave Him to care for all results. "Mind my
business," said Queen Elizabeth to one of her ambassadors, "and I
will look after yours." Our
heavenly Father is telling us the same thing!
Let’s not
think that God is ungenerous and penny-pinching in His gifts. He gives fish as
well as bread when He feeds the crowds; colors as well as leaves when He
clothes the flowers. You have been adopted into His Family, and may call Him
"Abba, Father." For you did not receive the spirit of bondage
again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out,
"Abba, Father." (Romans
8:15) NKJV. Surely this act of grace shows
a special love on His part. Would He have taken such care of the spiritual, and
have none nothing for the physical? The ungodly may worry about their
maintenance; but a child of God may be sure that His needs will be supplied. And my
God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ
Jesus. (Philippines 4:19) NKJV
PRAYER
You are our
portion, our God, our Father. You are more than father and mother to those who
trust You. You love us with a tender pity that never fails or wearies. Surround
us with Your guardian care, and realize in us Your highest purposes. In Jesus
name we pray, AMEN.
God’s Daily Promise
Promise
#9:
Since you are in Christ, I have made you an heir of all My
promises.
Galatians 3:29 (WEB)
If
you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed
and
heirs according to promise.
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