Contemplative Bible Reading

Luke 22:35 (New International Version)

Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?”
“Nothing,” they answered.

Sometimes we have to experience something to believe it. Jesus had sent out his disciples. When they returned, he asked them the simple question:

Did you lack anything?

Their answer,

Nothing.

How about that? Jesus provided everything they needed. He does the same for me today. Sometimes I get busy and am distracted. I think of all sorts of things that I need. I lack nothing as God has provided.

God, help me to see what you have provided and help me to see that I lack nothing.