SUPPLY AND STRENGTH (How to Deal With Shortage)

Greetings and Salutations O Ye...Non-Worriers.

NOTE: If you are choosing NOT to worry and TRUST GOD...write me and let me know.

In a world that is coming apart at the seams....where on the surface it seems as if there are great SHORTAGES around the world of everything from oil to intelligence...we have got some choices to make. To WORRY...or NOT TO WORRY...that is the question?!? The answer is NOT TO WORRY...BUT TO TRUST...not in governments, jobs, people...but GOD.

Of course I had to include the picture that is in my office at home...that I gaze on everyday... of the mascot of Mad Magazine...the "What--Me Worry" kid...Alfred E. Newman. Now...old Al is considered to be a simpleton...who is not smart enough to worry. Well...that may be... but as a believer in the Living God...who is the SOURCE of my SUPPLY...I believe...that I am called NOT TO WORRY...but to TRUST.

As I wrote on my Facebook status this morning..."If you can trust God when gas is $1.50 a gallon...why can't you trust God at $4.00 a gallon? He's the same God...is He not?"

No...I am not talking about hiding our heads in the sand of religion...go into mass denial of a problem existing...BUT...I am talking about WALKING BY FAITH...AND NOT THOSE THINGS REVEALED TO THE SENSES. (Hebrews 11:1).

"Anxiety and Worry is the indicator that I do not trust God...or think God is big enough to handle whatever my circumstance, situation, condition is that I am going through." (R.L.B.)

It is easy to trust God when all is well...when I have a job...when the political climate is perfect, when Wall Street is stable, when world conditions are peaceful, when I have no sickness screaming in my body, I have insurance and access to my credit cards (making the minimum payments)....etc, etc, etc. It's like a miracle...everyone wants to see a miracle in their lives...not realizing that the condition for a miracle...ain't fun.

Well...Mr. Smart Guy...Mr. Holier Than Thou...Mr. Hypocrite...if I am not suppose to be ANXIOUS and WORRY...what other options do I have?

Oh...I don't know....maybe TRUST GOD! I like what Jesus said to Peter and the boys when they saw that the tree that He had cursed had died from the roots up. "HAVE FAITH IN GOD...CONTINUALLY." (Mark 11:22 The Amplified Bible). Then Jesus launched into a teaching session on PRAYER and FAITH...how we believe and how we talk. (See Mark 11:12-26 for full details.)

The word CONTINUALLY...speaks to me...of never giving up...in the good times, in the bad times, in the ugly times. It is the word that Romans 8:28 is based on..."We are assured and know that [God being a partner in their labor] ALL THINGS (the good, bad, ugly) work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose." (Romans 8:28 The Amplified Bible...with my good, bad, ugly added).

There are two verses that I love that speaks of STRENGTH and SUPPLY... and they are both NOT based on me.

"I have strength for ALL THINGS in Christ Who empowers me--I am ready for anything and equal to anything THROUGH HIM Who infuses INNER STRENGTH into me, [that is, I am self-sufficient...IN CHRIST'S SUFFICIENCY." (Philippians 4:13 The Amplified Bible) I love that phrase...self-sufficient in Christ's sufficiency because it focus on what HE can do...NOT on what I can do.

The other verse that speaks to me is about SUPPLY is..."And MY GOD...will liberally SUPPLY (fill to the full) your every NEED (not greed) according to His riches in glory IN CHRIST JESUS." (Philippians 4:19 The Amplified Bible...with "not greed" added by me.)

On of the compound names of God...is Jehovah-Jireh...I AM THE GOD OF SUPPLY.

Either HE IS...or HE AIN'T. It is like that word GODISNOWHERE...either it is GOD IS NO WHERE...OR GOD IS NOW HERE. It all depends on how you view it.


It is all about our WALK. We either are going to WALK BY FAITH...or walk by doubt, fear, unbelief, fear, worry, anxiety, what we see, what our senses tell us.

"Now FAITH is the assurance (the confirmation , the title-deed) of the THINGS [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] DO NOT SEE...and the conviction of their reality--FAITH PERCEIVING as REAL FACT what is NOT REVEALED TO THE SENSES." (Hebrews 11:1 The Amplified Bible)

"For we walk by faith...[that is, we regulate our lives and conduct ourselves by our conviction or belief respecting man's relationship to God and divine things, with trust and holy fervor; thus we walk] NOT BY SIGHT OR APPEARANCE."
(II Corinthians 5:7)

"But without FAITH it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must (necessarily) believe that God exists and that He is the Rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him out."
(Hebrews 11:6 The Amplified Bible)

"For in the Gospel a righteousness which God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith--disclosed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith. As it is written the Man who through faith is just and upright and shall LIVE...and SHALL LIVE BY FAITH." (ROMANS 1:17)

FINAL THOUGHTS...FINALLY

There may be shortages in the economy...but their AIN'T no shortage in God. Maybe the question should not be..."What...Me Worry?...but What...Me Trust God?" That answer would be a resounding...YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love and Supplied Kisses
Rodney "Trusting God In The Good, Bad, and Ugly) Boyd