“For the Lord your God has blessed you in all
the work of your hand. He knows your trudging through this great wilderness.
These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.” ’
– Deuteronomy 2.7
‘These forty years the Lord God has been with you; you
have lacked nothing.’
I will never claim to fully understand the Providence
of God and His timing and how he works to apply His word at just the right time
but as I read this it is really truly like He wrote it just for me.
Of course God was telling Israel that as they headed
into the Promised Land after forty years of trudging through the wilderness
that they had never lacked. That was an encouragement to them as they prepared
to move into Canaan and begin new lives there.
And God did take care of all their needs. They had
lacked nothing. They had food and clothing and protection for all of those 40
years and the never did without.
And they still doubted and worried and fretted.
Mary and I are at that stage of life when the days we
have left are far fewer than what we have had. The way things have worked out
over the last twenty or so years we have not been able to prepare for the
future the way I would have liked to.
That can cause me to fret because I can’t see the way
through.
And here, right now, today, when I read this I see,
‘Roger, these forty years I have been with and you have lacked nothing.’ It’s
funny how there are times when the Holy Spirit personalises scriptures for us
at just the right time.
For the forty years since God saved me we have never
lacked the necessities of life. I really need to sit down with Mary and write
down all the times God met needs that we didn’t know how we were going to deal
with. We’ve never lacked a meal. We’ve never been cold due to lack of clothes
or heat. We’ve never had to skip a bill.
For forty years God was with Israel and they had had no lack. For forty years as
God’s child He has been with me and I have had no lack.
It just makes sense that He is willing and able to
provide for the future.
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