All look to you, to give them their food in due season.

Reading: 2 Kings 13, Psalm 104, and Mark 2

Scripture: Psalm 104:24-27, O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great. There go the ships, and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it. These all look to you, to give them their food in due season.

Thoughts: We all need things to live, it is easy to focus on the need for the resources to fulfill those needs. How do I get the money to pay this bill or get that thing? When we are asking those questions, our focus is not where it belongs. The psalmist was looking at how God provided for all creatures. He made them all and he takes care of them all from the smallest to the Leviathan. Throughout the years I have watched things last longer than expected, we have watched unexpected things arrive that fulfill a need, some we didn’t know were coming. Are we living by the letter of the law, give this, do that, and sacrifice here, or are we seeking God and worshiping him for all he does for us? 

Prayer: Father God, you created all things, and you know the needs we have and even the desires of our hearts. I ask that you help us to keep perspective that money and things are not bad but when we put the importance of those things before you, we will fall. Lord, I thank you for the provisions you give us and the wisdom to use those provisions that will glorify you and bring others know you.