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NISAN 13

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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 “fulfill every need of yours according to the riches of His glory in Messiah Yeshua”. (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 Adonai 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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