"Provide for his own"


BIBLE READING: 1 Timothy 5

We owe a duty to God and to the affairs of this life. We are to be diligent in our business, providing for ourselves and our families. God, at the very beginning of  Genesis 1-3, when He put Adam and Eve in the Garden, says that they were to dress and keep it, meaning to embellish it, to add to it, and to guard it from deterioration.
Our responsibility includes being diligent in doing our job for our employer. We are not to squander and waste what we have. We are to look ahead and plan for future demands, taking into consideration that there will be emergencies like accidents, illness, death, natural disasters. We are to prepare for such things. If we fail to do so, we do not show faith that "God will provide," but rather presumption in throwing all the responsibility on God while we ignore ours, failing to fulfill what God instructs. There is much to be learned about God's Kingdom and getting prepared for it by carefully using our resources.
The danger lies in our human inclination to tend toward extremes. The most common is following human nature's leaning to be overly concerned about the things of life and devoting too much time and energy to it. Jesus points this out in Matthew 6:25, advising us to “take no anxious thought.”

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