godprovides

God provides with love

Mathew 6:26 says "behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly father feedeth him, are ye not much better than they?" What this passage of scripture means is that everything that God has created that doesn't have free will gets provision. That God provides for them because they do his will. Birds don't have to look too hard to find a berry or a worm, and they dont stress over building a nest or finding a location to nest, neither do they have too much anxiety about wondering who their mate is going to be. They simply carry out God's will and the Lord blesses them.

Later on in the chapter 6 of Mathew in verse 33 it says "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." This scripture says that if we do God's will, he will inturn bless us. We are God's most precious and glorious creation, but one thing we have that all the other creations of God doesnt have is a free will. We have a choice whether or not to serve Him, to love Him, or do His will. Many of us exercise our free will too much. We want to do what we want to do, rather than do what God wants. But God would rather have it this way. Because it is a greater love, for someone that doesnt have to love you,to love you anyways. Someone who has to love someone else doesnt havet REAL love. If you love the lord and bless the lord, that is a greater love than anything else that is in exsistence. We can name people that we love. Our mom, our dad, our best friend etc.. But the bible does not hide the fact of how great love is when we love God. The bible calls God our heavenly father and it also says God is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. In return for our love God will begin to provide for us and bless us. He is Jehova Jireh which means my provider.

3 years ago as I was still a new convert I began to read the 6th chapter of Mathew and made up my mind to serve God and to do his will. Let me tell you a little story.

When I was in high school I made really bad grades, mainly the 6th letter of the alphabet lol. And so by the time I was a senior i saw that i wouldnt have even half the credits is required for graduation and the school I went to wouldnt let you repeat grades. So when I turned 18 I dropped out of school to go take my GED. It was my dream to go to college one day, it was one of my life goals but I had doubts that I would never go that far. So I laid my life down and did Gods will and left my desire into his hands. Later on I got my GED. I was happy for a moment but I kept reflecting back to my lifelong dream. That just wasnt good enough for me, I needed more than just a GED.

The first week of February of 2003 I started to notice some health problems. And before that, I knew i have been having some concentration and memory loss as well. And so I go and have an MRI done and a spinal tap and I was diagnosed with a disease called Multiple Sclerosis. With that disease came with some benifits. I learned that Arkansas Rehabilitation would pay my way to college if i had MS.

Now isn't this ironic? That something that was probably meant to hurt me.. blesses me? When your in God's will it doesn't matter what type of situation your in, God will take it and use it for your good and his glory! If i never got MS, i would have never been able to gone to college. Even if things start to get rough, praise God anyways. Love God no matter what comes your way. Romans 8:38-39 states "For I am persueded, that neither life, nor death, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to seperate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." What is means is that all these things cant take away our love from God, but there is one thing that wasn't listed right there. And because it isn't listed it CAN seperate us from the love of God. And that one thing, is us. Its because we have free will, that we are able to stray from loving God. That we are able to seperate ourselves from God in our life, but even then God is still with us. Don't you understand even when you dont love God, he still loves you? in the last part of Hebrews 13:5 it says ".......for he hath said, he will never leave thee nor forsake thee"