Trust & Disobey

We trust God to save our souls, but we do not trust Him with our money.

Bluntly, we trust God with the spiritual, but not with the material. When a person goes into debt, they are saying, 'God, I do not trust you to meet my physical needs."

What does God PROMISE about our physical needs?
Philippians 4:19 “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

Psalm 37:18, 19 “The Lord knows the days of the upright, and their inheritance shall be forever. They shall not be ashamed in the evil time, and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.”

Hebrews 13:5 “Let your conduct be without covetousness [envy]; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, ”I will never leave you nor forsake you.""

Matthew 7:11 “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!”

Romans 8:32 “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?”

Matthew 6:25 -33 (The Message) "If you decide for God, living a life of God worship, it follows that you don’t fuss about what’s on the table at mealtimes or whether the clothes in your closet are in fashion. There is far more to your life than the food you put in your stomach, more to your outer appearance than the clothes you hang on your body. Look at the birds, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, careless in the care of God. And you count far more to him than birds.
Has anyone by fussing in front of the mirror ever gotten taller by so much as inch? All this time and money wasted on fashion - do you think it makes that much difference? Instead of looking at the fashions, walk out into the fields and look at the wildflowers. They never primp or shop, but have you ever seen color and design quite like it? The ten best dressed men and women in the country look shabby alongside them.
If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers - most of which are never even seen - don’t you think he’ll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you? What I’m trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God’s giving. People who don’t know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met."

We keep returning to Romans 12:1, 2. Reviewing this verse and debt, verse 1, has even more meaning. This is how ‘The Message’ Bible puts it, “So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life - your sleeping, eating, going to work, and walking-around life - and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for Him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what He wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.”

Nothing says to quit a job, give away all possessions, become homeless, and go sit in a field waiting for God to bring food and shelter. That would be poor stewardship. It does not say, “do not to dress appropriately, nor wear makeup, nor drive a nice car, nor live in a nice house”. What it does say, is that God knows our needs and will meet them IF we trust Him. Matthew 6:33 (The Message) puts it back in perspective, “Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.” Every time we go into debt to ‘get’ a need or a want, we are robbing ourselves, distrusting and disobeying God.
We rob ourselves because we are so stressed out we lose focus. How many times have we ‘bought’ something on credit, like at a restaurant, and the meal is tasteless or lousy, and the companionship is not good, simply because we are preoccupied with the bill? How many things in life are like that? We want, we go into debt, and we get, only to be unsatisfied, and want more or something else.
We distrust, and disobey God, then miss his blessings. Philippians 4:19 “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” Read it again, “...according to His riches...” As ‘The Message’ puts it, “You can be sure that God will take care of everything you need, his generosity exceeding even yours...” How rich is God? He can afford anything. He owns everything. Are we REALLY saying that God can not supply us with the vehicle we need? Substitute anything for vehicle, like job, home, clothes, furniture, or toys.

He not only can, He promises that HE WILL!