This week's Gospel lesson, which I will be preaching on this coming Sunday(July 31), is the story of Jesus feeding the 5000. As I study the text, it really got me to thinking about how the Lord provides for us. Today, I will begin with the catechetical answer for this from the 1st article of the Apostles' Creed in Luther's Small Catechism. (NOTE: This may be a good opportunity for those of you who have one, to dust it off and take a look at the 1st Article of the Creed and its meaning!) Then I will pose a few questions for you at the end. This week my focus will be all about how the Lord provides for us.
I think that we cannot take a look at how the Lord provides without our starting point being WHY He provides. The answer is really quite simple. He provides for us because He created us.
I beleive that God has made me and all creatures; that He has given me my body and soul, eyes, ears, and all my members, my reason and all my senses, and still takes care of them.
That last part says it all doesn't it. He STILL takes care of them. That is true with all that God creates. Oh it may not look like it sometimes, but the bad and the ugly that we see with our eyes and experience in and around us is what sin has done to corrupt everything that God has created. This certainly does not mean that God, our Creator has stopped providing for us.
How do you recognize when and how God provides for you? Is there any times that it seems to you that God is not providing for your needs or the needs of others? What do you think about homelessness or starvation or those without sufficient clothing and the like?
Thank you for reading, and thanks be to God for all His blessings!
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