Surviving according to what He treasures as our need

"And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever."
Philippians 4:19-20

People have told me, the human race needs three specific things, food, water and shelter to survive. Do they? What is surviving? No, food, water and shelter do not provide means of surviving. Yes, they physically maintain our flesh from day to day, but every moment that passes this flesh is decaying. Food, water and shelter are not the means of what will cause me to survive, nor those whom I know that have survived to live on. These so called needs could not offer any slight hope of true sustenance. Actually, I have yet to survive. Not until I meet my Makers face will I know full survival. His means of survival is for our souls for all eternity through the power of His Holy Spirit. He does not decay; therefore, we do not decay in Him but are renewed with steadfastness of His spirit whether we have these physical amenities or not. Know Him and know His hope, and survive for the eternity of your soul. As the scripture above tells us, God gives according to His riches and the greatest treasure is Christ and in perspective of eternity, there is nothing else that we need. He may chose to use what He pleases, whether taking or giving of any means to make this truth known to us. What He chooses to supply is for the sake of His glory and He has supplied infinite grace. "Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'" Matthew 4:4, Deut.8:3

"Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it; for all is theirs to help them towards heaven; therefore if poverty be good they shall have it; if disgrace or crosses be good they shall have them; for all is ours to promote our greatest prosperity."
--Richard Sibbes


(Knowing these truths does not mean to withhold any gifts that are provided from those who are without them or to not use them ourselves. Rather it means to present them as a source of His goodness to proclaim the gospel and to take them as nourishment for our bodies as His word is for our souls. We should never forget this.)