Day 30 Lent Devotion

 

“No one can serve two masters:

Either he will hate the one and love the other,

or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.

You cannot serve both God and money.

Therefore I tell you,

do not worry about your life,

what you will eat or drink;

or about your body,

what you will wear.

Is not life more than food,

and the body more than clothes?

Look at the birds of the air:

They do not sow or reap or gather into barns

—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.

Are you not much more valuable than they?”

Matthew 6:24-26

I was really thinking about money and worry

and remembered what I thought were two different Scriptures,

just to find out looking them up,

that they were one after another.

God is not unfamiliar with our struggles.

He knows we will worry about money.

Imagine when the Bible was written?

These words at that time.

There were no companies,

no banks,

no social security.

You worked for your daily provisions

and many were poor.

It is easy to believe that we are responsible for our provision

because we have a job

and get a paycheck

and rely on ourselves

and believe it is in our control.

“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.”

Psalm 23:1

Our Shepherd provides for us

and we do not need to fear.

“And my God will supply all your needs

according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus. “

Philippians 4:19

“But godliness with contentment is great gain,

or we brought nothing into the world,

and we cannot take anything out of the world.

But if we have food and clothing,

with these we will be content.

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation,

into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires

that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils.

It is through this craving that some have wandered

away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.”

But as for you, O man of God,

flee these things.

Pursue righteousness,

godliness,

faith, love,

steadfastness,

gentleness.

Fight the good fight of the faith.

Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called

and about which you made the good confession

in the presence of many witnesses.”

1 Timothy 6:6-12

All I Need – Hillsong