God Ministers To Us in Our Needs

Today was rough, not having a job for seven months got to me, and I began to question God and become discontent with my situation.

God lovingly gave me exactly what I needed throughout the afternoon and early evening.

The first song that came on the radio after I was really down was Before the Morning ~Josh Wilson. There was a part of me that didn't want to hear it because I wasn't sure if the morning would ever come.

The first commercial break had a clip from a message that had been aired on the station that essentially said...

You can ask God why, but he doesn't have to answer you. He never answered Job.

This evening in devotions it was my turn to lead in our Old Testament survey, and the section was on major themes in Joshua. The author made the point that Joshua is not primarily about Joshua, or Israel's military victories. Instead it is about God fulfilling his promise to Abraham to give them the Land of Canaan, and how He worked powerfully to fulfill it.

...Yet not Crushed.

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. ⁸ We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed— ¹⁰ always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. (2 Corinthians 4:7-10, New King James Version)

I look forward to the morning, in the meantime I can only trust God.