"What God requires, God provides" ~ Augustine
God is the very definition of good. God is the very definition of holy. God is the very definition of power. God is the only definition of sovereign. God is defined as love. God is very gracious. God is the ultimate and highest giver. God is also God, and we are and always will be not God. What God commands, must be done or else it is condemnation. What God desire we must do. And here is the beauty to remember in the year ahead. What God commands, God requires, and God desires to be, God will also provide what is needed to be. Here is a list of a few examples of this Biblical truth coming into play...
God requires faith in a person for Him to save them....so God gives the gift of faith to people
God requires life, spiritual birth for the person to be saved...so God makes people alive in Christ
God commands us to abstain from sexual immorality...so God gives us a covenant spouse
God requires us to make disciples...so God gives us children, a church, a neighborhood, a workplace
God requires us not to sin...so God gives us a way out of every temptation
God requires us to be generous...so God gives us a church, family, friends, missionaries and money
God requires us to worship Him...so God gives us a heart, will, affections, and passions
God requires us to steward His stuff...So God gives us a brain and logical minds
God requires us to serve in His body...so God places in each of us a spiritual gift
God requires us to know Him...so God gave us His written Word
God requires us to study and know Him better...so God gave us His Spirit for illumination
And the list can keep going on and on and on
What God requires of us, He provides for us. What a great, amazing, gracious, and merciful God we have. Lets keep reminding ourselves of this in 2017!
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