Just a Line of Scripture this morning … with God Himself speaking through His Word: “If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.” Psalm 50:12
God is the greatest Giver ever! James was right ,.. “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights.” No doubt!
He gives us daily of His Grace, Provision, Protection. “Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation.” Psalm 68:19
But now let’s look at “the other side” of the giving/receiving cycle. How is God at “receiving?”
He of course desires (demands) our praise and worship, because He is God! But I mean more along this line … “God’s philosophy concerning making His Needs known?”
Our verse today sure brings clarity to that issue!
“IF I WERE HUNGRY” … poses God, what would I do?
Answer … “I would not tell thee!”
“I own the world and all that’s therein!”
(Psalm 24:1 … “The earth is the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.”)
God would provide His Own Needs, it seems! That’s what He says! Again our Lesson’s Text … “If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.”
Oh how I wish Christians today would adopt that approach to giving and receiving!
I hear and read of so many Believers doing nothing but begging for personal needs to be met.
We need this!
We need two of those!
We need a new, not used of course, that!
Jesus had a novel idea about getting our needs met. “And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.” John 14:13
George Mueller of Bristol England, years ago, ran an orphanage for hundreds of children … and would never ask a human being for anything but prayer!
And God, Who owns cattle and grain and everything else … fed those folks gloriously well!
I think He’d love to do the same thing today.
But some of us can’t keep our mouths shut and let Him work!
God will never be a Beggar!
“If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.”
His Theology on giving/receiving!
What an Example!
— Dr. Mike Bagwell
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