August 18, 2011

Provision comes after obedience...

a few weeks ago we were faced with many needs in our life. Some that we shared with people...some we didn't. Some were tangible needs...some were so overwhelming we didn't really know how to share them. Regardless... God came through as usual. Something I learn more and more every single day...

God...

Is...

Faithful!

That Sunday, the day after I preached my grandmothers funeral I sat in the office at my grandparents house in Bel Air, MD and just started to thank God for all He had done! He has blessed us so much... and we (just like the children of Israel) too quickly forget about all of the blessings in our life that are clearly from God alone. Sometimes we hear someone share salvation in a alter call and we grow anxious because we know what they are going to say...

but have we to easily forgotten that the greatest miracle that we could ever see takes place the day someone surrenders their life to a Jesus that died on the cross for their sins! He died for us... but we forget what redemption feels like because our relationship with him sometimes grow routine... when every day he calls us to draw nearer still... nearer still...

God reminded me of one of my favorite passages in the Bible... Joshua 3:1-17. He reminded me that 'Provision comes after Obedience'. I felt like he wanted me to share that with you today. He reminds us in John 14:15 that if we love him...we will be obedient.

Be encouraged today! God is more mindful of you than you realize friend! Be blessed...and check out Joshua 3!

-p.jimmy