God's Daily Provision

Matthew 6:33-34. Such a familiar verse to most in The Faith. So familiar that we often pass by it with little consideration as to how it might help us in our day to day life. Verse 34 is the verse I want to look at in particular, as well as Lamentations 3:22-23. So, here they are:

Jesus said in Matthew 
"³³ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

(We think) Jeremiah wrote in Lamentations 
"22 Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,
      for his compassions never fail.
 23 They are new every morning;
     great is your faithfulness."

Scripture seems to demonstrate that God, full of Grace and Mercy, wants us to rely on Him for anything we are going through...at that moment! Yes, we look to Him for all of our future needs, but He seems to be telling us to rely on him based on what he provides for right now. So, in Matthew, Jesus connects the providence of God ("all these things will be given") to your need for Today, right now, by instructing us not to worry ahead! Then I want to connect the last part of verse 34, where Jesus says "Each day has enough trouble..." with Jeremiah's words about God's "compassions" (mercies) being new every morning. I get from these connections that God proportions (dispenses/provides) to each believer the exact Grace and Mercy needed for everything that God knows will happen to us each day! Stop here and think about what that means. It's huge!
Here is the problem: We don't often trust Him for that provided Grace at the time of need. We tend to be so independent that the concept of relying on God moment by moment is not natural and often forgotten. We get caught up worrying about what's ahead or even overwhelmed at the size of the storm. Here is some sort of illustration about how we worry: Let's say I were to walk a child down a path and in front of us was a lion. Unknown to the child is that the lion is chained up and has no teeth. Despite my knowledge of the truth, it is clear to the child that we are headed right for danger and as we get closer and closer, the child becomes more anxious and terrified and paralyzed at the prospect of the coming threat. Yet, we are not there and when we get there, the child will discover that I had "prepared the way". That child's fear about what is about to happen is worrying about tomorrow. Looking at all that is ahead and becoming overwhelmed with worry when God tells us not to worry because at the moment we "get there", He is there with us providing everything we need.
So, Matthew 6 has much more meaning than clothing, food and shelter. In Lamentations we see that without God's love and compassion (Grace), we would not make it. Think about this. Our EVERY second of life is sustained by God! When you wake up each morning, you did so through God's provision. John Piper in his teaching on Future Grace shows that even our ability to believe (minute-by-minute) is sustained by God Himself (The Author of our Faith)! This is to say that every morning we wake up a believer we are indebted to God's Grace!!
So, depending on your view of God's sovereignty, we can begin (hopefully) to see that the very God who controls EVERYTHING in EVERY WAY is the same God that promises to provide for us all that we need AT THE TIME that we need it! His Grace is measured out daily for exactly what we need and nothing less, nothing more! Take joy if you feel the pressures of life overwhelming you. You are stressing needlessly. God's promises are real, powerful and reliable! You just need to believe and ask. I even believe that our reliance on God for His moment-by-moment Grace is the answer to killing the sins that plague us.
As J Moss would say..."God's Got it!"