Christ's Gracious Provision

I love the Spring season. With the abundance of rain everything is so green, and the flowers are so colorful. Even the smells of the fresh cut grass and flowers. I also enjoy toiling in the soil a little bit. I find it's a good time to contemplate. Recently, I was removing the "suckers" from my tomato plants. They are the small offshoots from the main stems that will ultimately drain the energy from the plant producing fruit and overcrowding it till it restricts airflow to the plant. Much like the things of this world that can "suck" the life we are meant to have in Christ.

Busy and cluttered lives restrict the Holy Spirit flowing into them. We end up not spending time in God's Word. In meditation of it and in praise and prayer time. It causes some to forsake the gathering together in fellowship as believers and taking time to influence and mentor unbelievers. There's nothing wrong with enjoying the beauty of material possessions in this world, it's when they become the focus and the idol. There's much good that can also be said about the minimalist lifestyle also.

Jesus preached a whole sermon on that we cannot serve God and mammon (Matthew 6v24). Mammon being anything you serve and allow to come before God. He goes on in verses 25 - 33 that birds do not worry about where their food will come from and flowers are beautifully clothed even though they do nothing to cause it. He tells how He does this when we choose to seek first the Kingdom of God in our lives. Where is the Kingdom of God? It is mystical and will be inside you when you seek it (Luke 17v 21-22).

God does not just give grace, He is Grace. It is one of many things He is. He doesn't only save by grace; He sustains us by His grace.

Jesus didn't come to only give life; He came that we would have life abundantly (John 10v10).