A Day-by-day devotional

February 17, 2023

Provision

Chronological One Year Bible Reading Plan: Leviticus 15-18

Scripture of the Day: Psalm 34:1-10

Sometime in 2015, I had been out of job. I tried everything I knew to do but it remained like that for a year. It was also a time when I was still finishing up my theological studies, which I had been financing by myself. So, life back then was definitely not a breeze.

But, what are the odds that it was when I had lack of a job, that I had felt the pouring of God’s blessings the most? When I didn’t know how to make ends meet, He supplied my needs. His presence in my life was more palpable to me than it ever had been prior.

It isn’t as though God wasn’t providing for me when I have a job compared to when I had none. However, my need of Him became more real to me when I depended on Him for the roof over my head, the food on my table, as well as the tuition fees I had to pay, and not my paycheck.

Sometimes, when our provisions are plentiful, ironically, it is then that we fail to count our blessings. We tend to take for granted what we have, when we have them in abundance. However, when we are not entirely sure where to pull out the supplies for the upcoming days, and we survived the next day anyway, and then also the next one, and the next, we know to acknowledge just how much blessed we are.

The birds of the air do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet God feeds them. Jesus said we are worth more than them (Matthew 6:26). We therefore, will lack nothing. It is God who will supply all our needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19).

The Lord provides our needs, both in what appears to us as lack, and in abundance. Often, it is not that God fails to supply. We just fail to count our blessings.

Reflection: What do you currently have in life that you probably have failed to be grateful to God for? What made you forget?

Prayer: Father, you have always been my provider. I am grateful. With you, I lack no good thing. Help me remember to count my blessings. Amen.