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All that I Need


Psalm 23:1

"...I shall not want."                                                     


This is rather a continuation of the last posting.  Although I'm not inclined to use other versions of the Bible, sometimes it is good just to get an idea for study purposes.  Course, if I were a student of the Hebrew and Greek, I suppose that wouldn't be necessary.  At any rate, other versions would state it this way: "There is nothing I lack," or, "I have all that I need." 

 

God is so good to provide us everything that we have need of.  Course, our problem a lot of the time is, we get our wants and our needs mixed up.  Especially here in America, we have more than enough...certainly more than we need.  That ought to teach us something.  Particularly in these poor economic times, we ought to be willing to help those that truly are lacking.  That wasn't really the subject at hand, but it should give us something to think about, nonetheless.

 

My point is, God is so good to provide all that we need; truly, there is nothing that we lack!  Let me turn your attention to Philippians 4:6-7.  It says this, "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.     And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."       You see, God doesn't want us to be burdened down with the cares of this life.  He desires for us to cast those cares upon Him--literally, put those burdens upon Christ--and let Him carry them and tend to them.  And with those cares cast upon Christ, we're to be thankful or grateful for all that God does for us.  And dear Christian, when we are thankful, suddenly a peace will come upon us because we're no longer focused on ourselves, but on God!  That is how God desires for us to live: a God-focused life, not a self-centered life.  A God-centered life brings peace and contentment; a self-centered life brings only turmoil and discontentment.  Something to think about!

 

May we live a Christ-centered life!

 
                    Merle

                                                                                                   


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