November 16
Our Father God desires the best for His people in every area of life. We tend to count our blessings in the things we can touch, taste, spend. He does not. The Lord wants us to have sufficiency in all things, but He does not count ‘things’ as being our sufficiency.
If He did, why would He allow any believer to go to bed hungry? Why would the child of any person of faith be without a good education? Why would revival not cover the earth and every lost, unbelieving soul be swept into the arc of safety before that great and terrible day of the Lord arrives?
The fact that this is not happening is evidence that God, although He wants to bless mankind with every good and perfect gift, will not force His gifts upon anyone. Nehemiah 9:20 says, “You sent Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths.” God’s supply is complete, but man’s receptivity to it is sometimes negligible.
When we fail to employ wisdom in our agricultural or business or governmental arenas, He will not supersede our choices. When we turn our backs on the eternal salvation He has provided through the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world, He will not force acceptance upon us. Yet there is a price to pay—in time and in eternity—for our recalcitrance.
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