Needs

1 John 1:5  This is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you:  God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all.

I was reading my "Jesus Calling" devotional this morning and was hit with an eye-opening thought. You know when you hear or read about how Jesus supplies all our needs and immediately the thoughts pop in to your head..."yeah but, remember when I didn't get...." or "how about that time when You (meaning God) didn't....."  Well that is exactly what happened to me today when I read those words in today's reading.  "There is nothing you need that I cannot provide." was what the writer penned.  And immediately my mind went back to a time when I needed money for vet bills and ended up having to put in on my charge card.  In my mind, my need was not met.  I had to go into deeper debt.

But today, as I contemplated the writers words and the Bible verse that coincided with it...it struck me....what if what I needed was not what I thought I did?  I thought I needed money to pay off extensive vet bills...but what if my need was something else, something I couldn't see but the Lord could?  And this is what rang so true in my heart.  He provides what we truly need, needs that we can't even name or see or begin to understand.  If I truly believe that in Him is only goodness and light then I will know when I don't get what I want or think I need it's because there is something greater going on, a deeper work being done in me.

Oh to be able to walk this new way of seeing out in daily life.  Lord, let it stick with me, change me and the way I view Your provision in my life and Your answers to my prayers.