I have often thought that if God could forgive my sins
(past, present and future) and deal with sin completely on the cross once and
for all, if He could take this huge unbearable sin on Him, and gave me
His life, then how hard is it for God to supply my needs which are so tiny in
His eyes. After all He is my father and He owns everything in this world. So I
can say that I have a rich Father and I don’t have to worry about my needs. I
just thank Him in advance because He who knows my needs will come through for
me.
How about my needs other than financial? Could He who
reconciled me back to Himself because of my inability to reconcile
myself back to God, could He not take care of those issues in our lives that
our concerning us. Remember He cares even for the smallest things that bother
us because a loving Father always does. He is intimately acquainted with us and
numbers even the the very hairs on my head (LK 12:7).
Once I am so convinced of His love and goodness toward me
and my inability to do anything by myself without Him, then its easy to have
faith! Wouldn't a little child who knows that his or her dad loves them
so much and would never ever hurt them trust Him completely? So now faith is
nothing so mystical or something we have to muster up, but just a response of
knowing He is a loving Father who promised NEVER to leave us or NEVER to let
the righteous be moved. That is why I read the Word, not to get this
mystical faith as many have said...but I read the word to really get to know
how good and gracious He is and as I meditate on that....my heart out of
responds in faith!
So why worry when we have a loving gracious rich Father who
knows us intimately. He who promised is faithful and He is not a man who should change His words. None of us should ever think that its because of what we do
(our obedience etc) that God decides to meet our needs..No, on the contrary its
because of who He is and HE IS LOVE!
IF we can accept that He is our savior by faith and immediately our debt gets wiped out (remember all by faith and trusting Him wholly to be our savior) then why is it so hard to accept the fact that He is also or provider.
Think about the following verse for
sometime:
Romans 8:32 (Amplified Bible)
32He who did not withhold or spare [even] His own Son but gave Him
up for us all, will He not also with Him freely and graciously give us all
[other] things?
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