Everything I need

I'm doing some studying this week getting ready to speak on this concept: there is nothing that I need for this life that does not come from God. Let me re-phrase that: anything that I am currently lacking in mind, spirit or heart can be and will be provided by God, and Him alone. He is everything I need for a strong mind. He is everything I need for a strong body. He is everything I need for healthy emotions. He is everything I need for life.

It's true that He can and does remind us of what we need through friends, so friends who follow God are crucial and necessary. My best friend in the world is my amazing wife who finds new ways every day to remind me of God's sufficiency. So in that sense we do need each other. But if friends would ever fail you or you'd find yourself somehow without them, He is everything I need for life.

Past relationships and hardships affect us and cause us to see life through certain lenses. We trust and mistrust people based on yesterday. We grow in understanding people's character and what roles we are to fulfill and how much of our hearts to entrust to others (or not). But no matter what you have faced in your yesterday (or this morning), He is all I need for life.

And as filthy as this world is in morality, you'd think you would need to help God, wouldn't you? There's stupidity and the throwing away of lives and the spending of self on all that is death. Wasting away these few days on drugs, addicted to anger and a hatred for all that is good. Even in the midst of this crooked and perverse generation, He is all that I need for life.

I wish that I could take credit for re-working the repeated phrase above from the text on which I'll speak. But I can't. 2 Peter 1: 3-4 that is translated into English in the precise way that I keep writing it above:

"His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires."

I LOVE life. And life is this--realizing that there is NOTHING I need for life that doesn't come from God Himself. His promises are SO precious! He's all that I need for life.