The Great Provider

It is a quiet Sunday morning.  A gray morning, and very little is stirring outside.  A turtle dove coos for his mate.  I have just finished a turkey and Swiss croissant, munched on a bit of organic grapefruit and am sipping valerian root/hibiscus tea.  Quietude.  Ahhh.  What a way to spend the morning with God.

He has been speaking to me this morning through II Kings 7.  The city is besieged, and there is a great famine.  Elisha tells the king that by the end of the day there will again be abundance.  No one can see how this is possible with the Syrian army encamped about them.  How will they survive? 

Four lepers who sat at the city gate decided to give themselves up to the enemy army.  After all, they were starving anyway.  But when they arrived at the camp, they found no one.  Why?  Because the Lord had caused the soldiers to hear the sound of horses and chariots.  Thus, the Syrians surmised that the Israelites had hired armies to take them out, so they ran for their lives, leaving everything in the camp intact.  The lepers began to plunder the tents then decided to tell the king.  And so it was, once again, that God saved the Israelites without them having to lift a finger.  He provided food, plunder and victory – provision in its finest forms.

And so I think on all He is calling me to do right now.  It is simple and yet difficult:

“Rest, My child.  Let Me do this for you.  I will do the work.  I will provide for you.  Rest in Me and you shall find new strength.  You will be able to labor if you will only rest.”

Ah, how He doesn’t make sense.  What a paradox.  What an amazing and wonderful God who is an abundant Provider, the Provider of abundance.

May you have joy today and may you find rest in Him.  May He rebuild and remake you, restore and revive you.  May He give you the life of abundance He promises as we seek Him and His righteousness first.  Bless you today.

Until next time…

“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you… do not worry” (Matthew 6:33-34, NKJV).