Right turn, Clyde 4/8/2014

¹⁰ The young lions suffer want and hunger;
    but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.  
Psalm 34:10 (ESV)

1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Psalm 23:1 (ESV)

³³ But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.  Matthew 6:33 (ESV)  

It is with great reverence and trepidation I begin today's musings.   While not calling God to task, I do find myself with some deep-seeded wonderings.  

The scripture is replete with verses that directly or indirectly remind us of God's provision for not just our spiritual needs, but also our physical needs.   God clothes the lilies of the field; he will cloth us.  God gives the sparrows what they need; how much more important we are.  

There is no doubt in my mind that all I have earned, achieved, and accumulated is the direct result of God's blessings in my life.  Thankfully God allows me to continue to make enough bonehead decisions to remind me that left to my own devices, I would be unemployed, unloved, and unwanted.  It is only through His guidance, His love, and His discipline I have achieved any sort of success.

However, since serving at the Gathering Tree, I struggle at times visiting with the guests about God's provision and watch care.  People who, I believe, are genuinely seeking God and who are truly looking to Him for guidance come in each Sunday, pray. . . . . 
  
Let me stop and take a right turn.  As I was writing this, the Holy Spirit redirected my thinking.  As you can see from the text with the strike through, my original thinking was that those guest who were "seeking first the kingdom of God" were not having all these things added to them.  Then I realized I have no idea of their level of seekerhood.  I have no knowledge of their heart status.

I am doubting God's promises based on less than 2 hours of sporadic, surface contact each month.  How arrogant of me to assume I can glean in a casual conversation anything at all about a person's heart.

The Holy Word of God speaks time and time again about God's provision for His faithful, prayerful children.  If we find ourselves lacking, it is not due to God's inability or unwillingness to keep His promises.  It is most likely our lack of seeking and obeying.  

Thanks be to God for correcting my thinking this morning.