All I Want Series

My little body has grown tired of the battle, and treatment is no longer helping. But what I see, what I know, what I have is Jesus. He has still given me breath, and with it I pray I would live well and fade well, by degrees doing both, living and dying, as I have moments left to live. I get to draw my people close, kiss them and tenderly speak love over their lives. I get to pray into eternity my hopes and fears for the moments of my loves. I get to laugh and cry and wonder over heaven. I do not feel like I have the courage for this journey, but I have Jesus—and he will provide. He has given me so much to be grateful for, and that gratitude, that wondering over his love, will cover us all. And it will carry us—carry us in ways we cannot comprehend. (Blythe Hunt, "Homecoming," Mundane Faithfulness blog, 3-22-15; www.PreachingToday.com)

If you have trusted Christ as your Savior from sin, you have Jesus no matter what life throws your way. You have Jesus, who died on the cross for your sins and rose again, demonstrating His love for you (Romans 5:8). You have Jesus, who has promised never to leave you nor forsake you. You may not have houses and land, but you have the Lord, who is always more than enough!

It’s like the little girl, who misquoted the 23rd Psalm, said: “The Lord is my Shepherd, that’s all I want!” So when you feel cursed, appreciate your blessings, because God always gives you Himself.

In addition to that, God also provides all your needs. He gives you all the essentials of life (and then some). Turn to Joshua 21, Joshua 21, where we see how God took care of the tribe of Levi.

Joshua 21:1-3 Then the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel. And they said to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, “The Lord commanded through Moses that we be given cities to dwell in, along with their pasturelands for our livestock.” So by command of the Lord the people of Israel gave to the Levites the following cities and pasturelands out of their inheritance. (ESV)

The rest of the chapter goes on to name all the cities the people of Israel gave to the Levites, along with the surrounding pastures. They didn’t get any land, but they got places to stay and pasture for their cattle.

God provided all of their needs, and He will provide all your needs, as well. The Bible says, “My God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19). So no matter what life throws your way, trust the Lord to do that for you, and be grateful for the good things He gives you every day.

Bert and John Jacobs, were two brothers who cofounded the $100 million Life Is Good T-shirt company. They grew up the youngest of six children in a lower middle-class family in Boston. When the brothers were in elementary school, their parents were in a near-death car accident from which their mother managed to escape with just a few broken bones, but their father lost the use of his right hand.