Happenings 24 May 2019

We often pray the prayer … “Give us this day our daily bread.” Gene Edward Veith, in his book, ‘God at Work’ writes: He does give us our daily bread. He does it by means of the farmer who planted and harvested the grain, the baker who made the flour into bread, the person who prepared our meal. We might today add the truck drivers who hauled the produce, the factory workers in the food processing plant, the warehouse men, the wholesale distributors, the stock boys, the lady at the checkout counter. Also playing their part are the bankers, futures investors, advertisers, lawyers, agricultural scientists, mechanical engineers, and every other player in the nation’s economic system. All of these were instrumental in enabling you to eat your morning bagel. … Though He could give it to us directly, by a miraculous provision, as He once did for the children of Israel when He fed them daily with manna, God has chosen to work through human beings, who, in their different capacities and according to their different talents, serve each other. When we or a loved one gets sick, we pray for healing. Certainly God can and sometimes does grant healing through a miracle. But normally He grants healing through the vocations of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, lab technicians, and the like. It is still God who heals us, but He works through the means of skilled, talented, divinely equipped human beings. When God blesses us, He almost always does it through other people.
We talked a couple of weeks ago about God wanting to partner with us in life. One of His desired outcomes of this partnership, and one of the reasons for our work (paid or voluntarily!) is that we get to be part of an enormous web of God’s blessing. How does that shift the way you view your endeavours in the week just past?

In Him,
Murray