The Lord Gives What You Need

Many of us are in great need or concerned about what they require to live. You may be worried about things you merely desire or believe you desperately need. Your desires may be completely innocent, not looking for anything in a selfish way. But just the basic needs of life. Just enough to get you by, or you may be longing for too much. Remember that God knows the true motive behind your desires. He knows the heart. But it is often hard to understand why God gives, why He takes away, or why you must wait for them.

Remember, God says to wait upon Him, and He will give everyone what He has planned for them at the right time. It might be hard to endure while you wait. But the Lord works every situation out for your good. He is teaching, strengthening, and making you grow in patience and His wisdom. The real purpose of waiting upon Him is to make you more like Him. 

Don’t worry or be anxious about any of those things. God knows what you need. “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” Look forward to what is most important and do God’s will. He will always provide everything that you need for your progress along the way.

Walk in His ways, and seek those things in your day-to-day life that will bring pleasure to Him. A humble, honest, and patient servant is what makes Him smile. He calls you a good and faithful servant.

Therefore, I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you, by being anxious, can add a single hour to his span of life?

And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

Therefore, do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Matthew 6:25-33

  1 comment for “The Lord Gives What You Need

  1. Sophia
    October 19, 2019 at 12:59 pm

    Amen!

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