| “And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.” |
| —Philippians 4:19 |
As you read this blog post, if you sit in a lean-to made out of cardboard, if your stomach is empty and aching because you haven’t eaten in three days, if you have no money to buy food or clothing, if you have lost your family for a variety of reason, if … Then, my insistence that God will supply all our needs may fall on deaf ears, as far as you are personally concerned. When a person has genuine, heart-wrenching needs that remain unfulfilled, then it is difficult to imagine that God is a supplier of needs.
But, the truth remains that God does, indeed, supply all our needs. The context of what the Apostle Paul wrote in the Book of Philippians applied directly to his own physical needs. He was writing to the Christians at Philippi about the way they had so generously given gifts to help him in his time of significant personal need. After thanking them for their generosity, Paul ends with these words found in Philippians 4:19:
And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
In other words, Paul is writing to the Philippians with great conviction:
“Just as you have so generously shared with me, so I know God will meet your needs, as well.”
And, of course, Paul was right. He was right regarding the Philippians, and he is right concerning you and me, too.
God will, and does, supply our needs. No doubt our greatest need is the need to be free from the penalty of our sins. God has supplied that need through the birth, life, suffering, death, resurrection, and ascension of His precious Son, Jesus. As His dearly loved children, God has given us new life. He has erased the stain of sin and embraced us as belonging to Himself for all eternity.
In the practical aspects of our human lives, God also supplies our actual needs. Time and again, when we are in genuine need, God comes to our aid with just what we truly need. We may not always recognize His gift. In fact, we may sometimes resist, or even resent, what He sends our way. But, we can be assured that, upon closer examination, we will learn that whatever God sends us is exactly what we need.
As we begin a new day, let us rejoice that God’s love so fills us with hope that we can say, without hesitation:
“Yes! God does, indeed, supply all our needs!”
