by Miron Huhulea

Created on: August 23, 2009

"My God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Jesus Christ." (Philippians 4:19)

To worry about tomorrow is natural. We worry about what we're going to eat, about how we're going to pay the bills or how we're going to save for our children's future. And while this makes sense from the material point of view, we as human beings have a dual nature. We are part matter, which passes away, and part spirit, which does not. The fact that our bodies are mortal makes them inferior to our souls, which are immortal. A person who is poor in spirit, because he or she chooses to neglect it in favor of material concerns, is akin to a person dying of thirst in the desert, yet worrying about the quality of his or her clothing.

From God come all things and He can provide them all. To forget this is to have little faith in God, worrying that if you don't look out for yourself, He might forget to provide for you. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy: the more you worry about tomorrow, the harder you may find yourself struggling to get by. Part of the reason for this is that we have learned how to accumulate more and more, and now we believe we need a great deal: from homes with 30-year mortgages to one or two cars, flat-screen TV's, digital cameras, cell phones, mp3 players and a mind-boggling array of daily "essentials." And these things, in turn, enslave us because we have to pay for them, so we buy into a system of work for compensation that provides these "essentials" for us to "consume." And, once we've bought into this system because we have to pay for the things we "need," we must also accept its rules even if they go against our morals or even the Word of God. And in this way we neglect the spiritual in favor of the material.

It is not easy to arrive at the sublime wisdom of Jesus, who said that "no one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other." (Matthew 6:24) But what you must remember is that when you have faith in God and try to do His will, not only will you be rich in spirit, which is incomparably more glorious than being rich materially, but God will also provide for you.

I am a person whose faith grows and grows every day. I live in a country in Eastern Europe, and here when you get on a bus no one makes you pay. You buy a ticket before you get on the bus, and once you get on you perforate it with a special machine. This leaves a pattern of holes, and

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