Miraculous or Mundane
My God is a God who provides. When I am hungry, He provides food. When I am thirsty, He provides drink. When I am cold, He provides warmth. He promised if we seek first His Kingdom, all our needs will be provided. Sometimes they are met through miraculous channels and sometimes they come through rather mundane ways, like modern medicine and surgeons.
Recently, in my daily Bible reading, the Israelite’s traveled through the desert. They needed water, so God commanded Moses to speak to a rock. Moses did and water miraculously poured out. Another time the Israelite’s needed water, but God didn’t perform a miracle. He simply allowed them to find twelve natural springs of good fresh water. You see God always provides, but it’s not always through miracles. Most of the time, it’s in simple and mundane day-to-day activities. Often, He provides through the knowledge of others, like modern medicine and the surgeons who operated on me. But it is always God.
He is the God of the miraculous and the mundane. Today you may be battling sickness and you’re praying God will miraculously heal you. He might. Perhaps the doctor will prescribe ordinary treatments to restore your health. They might suggest a more invasive solution that requires much time and attention for healing. But maybe you’ll receive the ultimate healing and soon be home in heaven. Whether it is miraculous, mundane, or ultimate, healing will come and it will come from God.
Today you may have a need. I promise you God will provide. His provision may come through the miraculous or mundane. Or it could come through teaching you to do without or ask for help. No matter how it is provided, it will come from God. This is a promise He gave us. If we seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, He will meet all our needs. Our needs will be met according to His riches in glory.
“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? “So why do you worry about clothing?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek.
For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
Matthew 6:25-34 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/mat.6.25-34.NKJV
Douglas & Deborah Huff
Updated by Kate Huff, Sept 19, 2024
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