NISAN
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“…I do not lack.” (Ps 23:1)
There is a deep canyon between what is a
‘need’, and what is a ‘want’. Needs are
those elements we require for normal day to day living and survival, such as
food, water, clothing, shelter, and even something as basic as the air we
breathe. A want is above and beyond a
need, such as designer name brand jeans, a new iPhone, rib-eye steak instead of
hamburger, and a $500,000 house instead of a mobile home. Please understand me, I am NOT saying there is anything wrong with
these things in themselves. All I am
pointing out is that most of the ‘things’ we desire are not something we are in
dire need of.
Our Creator has promised to “fill all our need according to His riches
in esteem by Messiah יהושע” (Phi 4:19). Our problem
is not learning to be happy and content with what we have, and always desiring
more (see Phi 4:11-12). We have easily
slipped in to becoming a nation of ‘hoarders’, never satisfied, and yearning
for more, more, more.
May we all get to that place where we can
truthfully, joyously say,
“I do not lack. Because I choose to make Yahweh my Shepherd,
He generously provides for me, so that I never suffer lack. Nor am I lacking within myself, for ‘His Word have I laid up in my heart, that I
might not sin against Him’ (Ps 119:11). I am complete in Him (see Col 2:10), and I lack nothing.”
Amein.
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