His Provision
His Provision
God never asks anything of us that He has not already provided. It is a great thing when we learn this principle of God's dealings with His creatures. Do we have anything of our own to give God when He asks something of us? If we think we do, we are beside the mark and are in spiritual poverty. God's requirements are so many, so varied, and so great, that a man who tries to meet the call on his own will certainly fail.
The unsaved man will look to the Creator, wondering what he must do, do, do - seeking to provide a deposit balance to his credit that may satisfy some of the demands of God. The result of such hopeless attempts is that "the wicked are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt; there is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked" (Isa. 57:20, 21). But when the unsaved man realizes that God must require perfection - absolute holiness like His very own - he also realizes that as imperfect beings we cannot attain that end, and that therefore God must provide it. When he looks to the cross and sees that the revelation of God's righteousness may be had as a gift to meet God's requirements, then he will know peace with God for the first time. His own struggle to furnish the unattainable will cease, and he will recline in the joy and rest of full confidence and trust. town. His wife flew to meet him and flew him back to New York. It was then that the newspapers discovered the story and printed the details. The man was in New York, in the process of acquiring a new wardrobe; he was awaiting passage on the steamship that was to take him back to his ancestral castle, his estate and his new life.
1. If giving back what God has given to us is worship, how important is tithing?
2. What do you think of this statement “how we tithe is a direct reflection of our relationship to Christ”?
3. When we give it sometimes feels like we are loosing something, how do we learn to take joy in giving?
4. How does the provision of the Lord change or help us build a theology of stewardship?
