Providing for Our Needs...

God always provides what we need. Notice I didn’t say WANT. The emphasis is on NEEDS. Why would God expect us to do something without providing the means of doing it? He wouldn’t. If we find ourselves complaining about something, particularly if it’s something we want and didn’t get, we need to accept the fact that God deemed it unnecessary. He knows best, and we need to recalibrate our ability to differentiate our “needs” from our “wants”. God always provides enough, even if it doesn’t fit our definition of it.

4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Look, I’m going to rain down food from heaven for you. Each day the people can go out and pick up as much food as they need for that day. I will test them in this to see whether or not they will follow My instructions. 5 On the sixth day they will gather food, and when they prepare it, there will be twice as much as usual.” Exodus 16:4-5

17 So the people of Israel did as they were told. Some gathered a lot, some only a little. 18 But when they measured it out, everyone had just enough. Those who gathered a lot had nothing left over, and those who gathered only a little had enough. Each family had just what it needed. Exodus 16:17-18