Today's encouragement comes from 1 Timothy 6:17b, where we read these words:
" . . . But [let us trust] in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy."This is a lovely text (above). Not only does the Lord give us enough to live on—He also provides us with "*All* things to enjoy." In other words, everything God has created is to be employed for and subsumed under the welfare and happiness of Christ's church—so long as Jesus is loved first and foremost.
Our Heavenly Father is not "stingy," as some foolish people would imagine Him. Instead, He is extraordinarily generous (with those who are His, in Christ). As a matter of fact, God is extremely kind to *all* creatures—even to those who hate Him, and will forever experience His eternal wrath, (cf. Ps. 145:9). Let us who love God as Christ’s church *more fervently* love Him, The One who "gives us *richly* all things to enjoy."
[Puritan quote of the day: "A true Christian grows in beauty. Grace is the best complexion of the soul. It is, at the first planting, like Rachel: fair to look upon, but, the more it lives, the more it sends forth its rays of beauty.” —Thomas Watson, in, "The Art of Divine Contentment"]
