Meditate: Acts 2:44
The Bible makes it clear that God isn’t at all pleased when His people sit around occupied with what they don’t have. Come to think of it, many of the greatest miracles in the Bible involve God taking the little that someone has and transforming it.
Remember Jesus feeding the 5000? When Jesus told His disciples to feed the crowd, they honestly said they didn’t have the needed resources. Jesus more or less answered, “Well then, what do you have?”
They gave him all they had, a “sack lunch” borrowed from a boy, and He fed 5000 men plus women and children with 12 baskets of leftovers to spare.
And that’s just one example. Go through the Bible and, for example, you’ll read where enemies are defeated, water flows, food doesn’t run out, an ax head floats, fire falls from heaven, water is turned to wine, a temple is built.
This is an easily discerned principle: “Where God guides, He provides.”
But God’s most overwhelming responses often involve sacrificial trust. Sometimes it’s a symbolic act, “strike the rock,” and sometimes it’s more tangible, “Never mind the famine, I’ll be eating at your house.”
The common denominator is that God hands someone a saw and leads them out on what looks an awful lot like a limb and they go.
And you know what they learn out there on that limb? (Brace yourself. Major truth’s about to be shared…) God is faithful. Really, truly faithful.
And that’s what this is all about: God’s faithfulness.
If God is faithful then we can dare to have everything in common, to share. If we understand that ultimately it’s God who’s providing everything anyway, then what’s the big deal when He asks us to share (or to tithe on it, for that matter?) So do we believe that God is faithful? Do we truly believe the Bible?
Or are those examples just Sunday School stories we use to entertain the kids while we adults talk about the really important stuff?
See, real trust means “trusting with” something.
- Am I really trusting God?
Pray:
Praise: You are the same, yesterday, today, and forever. My trust in You will never be disappointed.
Confess: I often trust myself more than I trust You.
Thank: You have never failed me or left me comfortless.
Ask: Teach me to trust You with all of my life.
Digging Deeper: Genesis 22:1-19
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