Daily Devotionals

Bowen's Daily Meditations

Devotional: January 9th

"My God shall supply all your need."- Philippians 4:19.

He knows your need. It seems to you that no one can know it, it is so vast. He knows it better than you do yourself. He does not confound you with others, saying, I know what man needs; but he knows you, yourself, and is acquainted with all the necessities of your individual being, as though every thought, every desire, that had ever trembled in your heart had spent itself in his own infinite mind. It has done so! The multitude of your own aspirations are not present to you, are lost to you, but he has caught them all in his own vessel, and will see to it that all are duly fulfilled. He knows your need; your bodily and your social need, your intellectual need, your spiritual need. Your need to-day, your need yesterday, and your need to-morrow.

And he knows it that he may supply it. Ask and receive. Your most urgent need he satisfies at once. Your most pressing need is to be free from vain desires, and to know how to prefer the best gifts. He does not make your needless, but he refines it from its grossness, and then he satisfies it.

" My God;" the God of Paul, will do it. Think how he supplied the need of Paul on earth; - how he has supplied it since in heaven; - how he will ever supply it; and let all unbelief and anxiety vanish from your minds.

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