Good Morning Everyone,
Our theme for this month: “Trusting God”
Our Bible verse for today: “Trust in the Lord and do what is good.” Psalm 37:3 (HCSB)
Our thought for today: “Trust the Lord, but do your part too.”
One lesson the Bible makes very clear is that God works in and through His people. It’s very much a partnership. It started in the Garden of Eden when God gave Adam the responsibility to care for the Garden. It’s not clear from Scripture what exactly Adam’s stewardship of the Garden involved, but it is clear that God tasked him with some amount of responsibility for caring for his environment.
Since God is Omnipotent it was certainly within His power to take care of the Garden Himself – He really didn’t need Adam’s involvement, and yet God clearly wanted Adam’s participation. In some way it would be good for Adam to have that responsibility. The same is true for us. God does bless us, and God does provide for us, but those blessings and provisions almost always come as a result of our active participation with God. Like Adam, we too have responsibilities assigned to us by God and we must be faithful to them.
The Bible never allows the people of God to use our utter dependence on God as an excuse for being lazy. God makes His feelings about that pretty clear. “The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.” Proverbs 20:4 (HCSB) “If anyone isn’t willing to work, he should not eat.” 2 Thessalonians 3:10 (HCSB)
It’s true that every good thing, every blessing, comes to us from the hand of God. It’s also true that we can trust God to care for us and to provide for us, but we do have a responsibility to be involved in providing for ourselves as well. We can trust the Lord, but we must do our part too.
God Bless,
Pastor Jim
Oak Hill Baptist Church 