I was evaluating my need...rather a want?? !!Reminding me of the verse,
The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. Psalms 23:1
and also,
And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19
We all do face wants and needs.....
The endless cycle of materialism has confused the word "need" with the word "want".
All we need to do is to identify the kind of need or want we have.It is the needs that the Lord promises to take care of, whereas most of us keep chasing perceived needs(wants) that are often shaped by emotions and vanity, mainly due to selfishness in leading us to believe God will give everything we want and not seeing that needs are not wants.
This is a good learning for me because I tend to over-rationalize things....is it my need? or just a want? Will it happen? Do I really need it or badly want it? What if i don't get it?
God's answer to Our Prayer's are always,
1. "YES"
2. "YES BUT NOW NOW" (a few real needs require God's children to wait for a bit more.)
3. "I HAVE A BETTER PLAN FOR YOU"(do we realize that a good number of unanswered needs are not real needs at all, but just wants!)
2 comments:
YEa... true, many times our prayers are full of our needs and wants... But We need to keep reminding ourselves that our Needs/Wants are His CAREs - He will anyways take care of that...
But what about God's Need - Perishing Souls?
This is a nice comparison and thanks be to holy spirit for making us understand and say oh yeah thats rite :)Perishing Souls God would use his own vessels to make a impact in his own time but we have to take some efforts :) am I taking dats the ? going on in my mind
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