Godly Provision

Psalm 34:7-9 “The Angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him [who revere and worship Him with awe] and each of them He delivers. O taste and see that the Lord [our God] is good! Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who trusts and takes refuge in Him. O fear the Lord, you His saints! For there is no want to those who truly revere and worship Him with godly fear.”

What marvelous promises! These are promises for today, not for the hereafter. God loves and cares for His creation. We are protected. We are blessed. We are satisfied. Researching a few biblical resources, I found a joyful truth about God.

Jehovah-Jireh” is one of the many different names of God found in the Old Testament. “Jehovah-Jireh” is the King James Version’s translation of YHWH-Yireh and means “The Lord Will Provide”. It is the name memorialized by Abraham when God provided the ram to be sacrificed in place of Isaac. Jehovah-Jireh provided a sacrifice to save Isaac, and that action was a foreshadowing of the provision of His Son for the salvation of the world. Much of what God does for His precious saints (those who have been sanctified in the Lord) is veiled in the Old Testament—often hinted at in poetic sections like the Psalms or wrapped up in the principles contained in mighty miracles displayed in God’s sovereign care for Israel.

Matthew 7:7-11 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!”

But, one writer points out that the New Testament is replete with direct promises and insights. The first three chapters of Ephesians reveal the inexhaustible resources that we have at our disposal as the children of the King of the kingdom of Heaven. Jesus promises that we need not worry about tomorrow or about our needs; the heavenly Father already knows what we need and is anxious to give us “good gifts”. Paul told the church in Philippi that he knew that he could “do all things through Christ which strengthens me”. He also understood that God “shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus”.

Psalm 34:10 “The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing”.

It's so wonderful to know that God is our source for everything we need and He cares about everything we care about. There's no need so small that He doesn't know about it, and nothing too big that He can't provide for us. It is when our heart desires are in alignment with the Lord’s desires for us and the world, that He will give us the desires of our heart. The Lord is the “Great Provider” of godly provision. Know that by God's providence you are blessed.