The Lord Will Provide

So do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink or wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them…Are you not much more valuable than they?…But seek first the kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Matthew 6:25-26, 33-34

It is so easy to worry about our future or how we will meet our daily needs. In Matthew 6, Jesus talks about a mind-blowing reality: God is our Father in Heaven. This thought would have been revolutionary to the listeners of His sermon. They knew God was “The God who provides,” but a Father? And what’s more, He’s our Father? They knew the story of Abraham and Isaac, how God would ask Abraham to sacrifice his only son, only to stop him and provide a ram in the thicket instead. They had heard how Abraham responded by building an altar to God there on Mount Moriah, calling Him for the first time in Scripture “Jehovah Jireh” or “The-God-Who-Provides” because He provided a sacrifice and spared Abraham’s son. 

But those listening to Jesus didn’t know then what we know now: That God was giving us a picture of redemption—and ultimately, He would not hold back when it came to His own son. He would offer him as the perfect sacrifice. Romans 8:32 says this about the way God provided for us: “He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all—how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things?” He has made a way back to a relationship with our Heavenly Father through Jesus Christ. The same intimate relationship Jesus has with His Father is now available to us by His life, death, and resurrection. We are now children of the God of the universe! As if it weren’t enough for the rest of our lives, how will He not, along with all that, give us our daily needs? 

Remember and believe today that you can ask your Father for whatever you need. He not only gives us what we need, He himself is what we need, and when we have Him, we lack nothing. 

Prayer: Father, when I am tempted to look to my own abilities to provide for myself, help me remember today that you are the ultimate source of everything I need. I entrust every circumstance into your able hands. Amen.