Your Lord is pretty impressive. He provides for the needs of a massive crowd of people, just by using the packed lunch from a small lad. That’s pretty radical in anyone’s book. In the same way today God provides us with everything we need. Yes, I said need not want. He could round us all up and keep us like pets, in a little cage, where everyday he feeds us and lets us worship him. After all, this God of ours created the entire universe and everything in it. But He doesn’t. Firstly he gives us the ability to choose ourselves, whether we worship him or not. Then he says, I will provide for all your needs. He could say, I will provide for everything you want, but he doesn’t. Now, I am thinking, that God providing everything I wanted would be pretty cool. I want the latest play station, the latest Xbox, the latest Wii. Not to mention a fast car, aeroplane, helicopter and the best MP3 player going. But I think maybe, we can begin to see the problem here. When I get what I want, rather than what I need, I have a tendency to become a little greedy. Anyway, if my effort was not involved in providing what I need, and God just gave me everything I wanted, I would become his pet again. But no, our God provides you and me, with the ability to have what we need to live our lives to the full.
