By Rick Warren
Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will
also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of
your righteousness. 2 Corinthians 9:10 (NIV)
You must decide you will look to GOD ONLY as your source of
supply. You need to tell God that you're going to look to Him alone to provide
for your needs and that you won't look anywhere else.
We get ourselves in trouble when we confuse the channel with
the source. God may use your paycheck from work as the channel to supply your
needs, but your employer is just the channel for God's provision - and he can
shift to another channel anytime he wants.
When you start to look to something or someone else to meet
you needs, when you begin to confuse the channel with the source, there is a
clear warning sign: Worry!
Say you've started looking to your job as the source, instead
of the channel. You may start worrying, "What if I loose my job?" You
knoiw what - the channel may have closewd, but the source of your every need is
still active and providing for you. When God turns off one channel, He can turn
on another one.
Once you know what you're lacking, you need to give God the
right to choose whatever channel He chooses to fulfill the need. It may be a
channel different than you choose; in fact, God may delieberatly choose a
different channel in order to teach you to keep looking to him for all your
needs.
I have learned - as a Christian for nearly forty years - that
it's exciting to just to let God be God.
It's exciting to watch God meet a need in a way that you never thought
possible or could have never thought up on your own.
God alone is the source of your supply.
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