Originally posted on Facebook on Sunday, October 9, 2022.

God provides.

"Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds?"
-Luke 12:24

God provides for all creation. He feeds the birds but He doesn't drop the worm in their mouths.

God provides through means and mechanisms.

The means are abundant opportunity.

"O Lord, how manifold are Your works!
In wisdom You have made them all.
The earth is full of Your possessions—
This great and wide sea,
In which are innumerable teeming things,
Living things both small and great."

"These all wait for You,
That You may give them their food in due season.
What You give them they gather in;
You open Your hand, they are filled with good."
-Psalms 104:24-25,27-28

The mechanism is the God ordained system to convert opportunity into sustenance and wealth:

Work.

"He causes the grass to grow for the cattle,
And vegetation for the service of man,
That he may bring forth food from the earth"
Psalms 104:14

#work