A Father's Blessing

God: "If you were the only person on the planet, do you think I would make you financially rich?"

God singled me out. He cut to the core of who I was and what I believed. The answer in my heart to His odd question, was a resounding, "Yeah, of course you would".

It was when I let God deal with me on a one-on-one basis that I could finally see the truth about money. When I let myself matter to God, I saw the way He felt about me.

God's heart as a father is to take care of His children- and in an extravagant way... For them to have more than enough. When the prodigal son came home, did His father give him only what He needed and nothing more? No, the father threw a lavish and expensive party! Everytime Jesus provided bread or wine, did he do so in a miserly way? No, the wine was the richest wine they had ever tasted and there were baskets full of extra food! Or look at the stars in the sky. What an extravagant gift to humanity! billions and billions, more than we can count. 

Why?
What do these things communicate?

They communicate that God's supply for us is so much more than we will ever even be able to experience fully. We're so worried about bread and Jesus is just like:

“O you of little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered? ¹⁰ Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you gathered? ¹¹ How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread?"

God cares about us. So why am I worried about bread? Why am I worried about whether or not He's going to take care of me? To Jesus, it's just overly common sense that He'll provide richly for us. So much so that He doesn't even feel the need to address it. He's just like, "They've seen my spectacular provision in the past, so I don't even have to address the lack of food. Of course they'll be taken care of extravagantly... That's why I'm going to talk about something else entirely."

So the question really is this: Are we seeing? Or do we still "not yet perceive". It must be frustrating for someone who loves so extravagantly to be constantly doubted by the one that He loves. And yet that love just keeps telling us the truth, over and over and over again. And the truth is that God will richly provide for us in far more abundance than we will even need. I pray that you'll receive that truth today.