Switch Your Provider
Wednesday, November 17
Switch Your Provider
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6
Money experts today advise us to save money by switching out our old appliances and replacing them with more energy efficient products. Now this is easier said than done, but once we do make the switch we see the difference. The Israelites spent forty years trying to learn much the same lesson. They never really ever learned to make the switch. Stuck in the wilderness, ever wandering round and around in circles but never really fully learning to trust in God’s promise of provision, they hankered after what they had left behind in Egypt or defaulted back to their idols when the going got tough.
Many of us have spent years trying to find a way out of our own personal wilderness, caught in an endless cycle of wandering around the same mountain, trying the same broken cisterns. There is only one way out and that is leaning on the beloved, not on our own understanding, but on Jesus, the One who is the way to the Father.
Leaning speaks of being dependent, a full weight of trust, and knowing who the source of our provision truly is.
Until we switch the focus of our trust for provision to the One who has promised to supply all our needs, and know who the source of our provision truly is, we will be like the Israelites, ever wandering around the same mountain employing ‘other’ ways to meet our own needs. We will only truly emerge from the wilderness when we learn to switch our provider. Renew our source and lean, walking step by step, with the Beloved Son.
Depend wholeheartedly on the Father. It is here we find our promised rest.
Prayer for today: Heavenly Father, we acknowledge our lack of trust in Your provision at times. Help us to see the things in our lives that we are depending on instead of You, and help us to switch the focus of our trust to You. In Jesus’ name, Amen.