In our study of the Lord's Prayer, so far we have come to see God as our Heavenly Father, who is Holy and deserves our worship. We also recognize that we are part of the Kingdom of God and we choose to do His will. Today, we look at trusting God's provision.
God loves us and wants to meet our every need. He is a good Father. We have been spending time with close friends and one of the couples has a toddler. She is dependent on her mother and father to meet her every need, as well as her wants. She never worries about where her food or clothes are going from. She just trusts she will be taken care of. It's not only provision of needs - we watched her face light up when her parents walked in the room. It was refreshing to see the total trust and adoration between the child and her parents.
In watching the parents' interaction with their daughter, it is a reflection of God's interaction with us. His desire is to get us to the point where we completely rely on Him for His provision; to trust Him so absolutely with every part of our lives (physical, spiritual and mental) - daily and continually without ceasing.
God wants us to be completely dependent on Him to meet our every need. As we learn to rely on Him more completely, we can be at peace like the child above, knowing that He is indeed, a good Father.
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Scriptures:
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing. (Psalms 34:10)
"Man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord," (Deuteronomy 8:3b)
Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me. (Proverbs 30:8)
Prayer:
Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
As we forgive our debtors.
And do not lead us into temptation,
But deliver us from the evil one.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.