God Provides All

God Provides All

“O Lord Our God, all this wealth that we have brought together to build you a house in honor of your holy name comes from you and is entirely yours.”  (1 Chronicles 29: 16)

What a great truth that reminds me that everything belongs to God.  The Church remembers this truth everyday at the offertory when it prays:
“Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation.
Through your goodness we have this bread to offer,
Which earth has given and human hands have made.
It will become for us the bread of life.”

The gifts we bring to God at the altar are the gifts God himself provides us.  Isaac asked his father, Abraham, “Here are the fire and the wood, but where is the sheep for the holocaust?’  ‘Son’, Abraham answered, ‘God himself will provide the sheep for the holocaust.”  (Genesis 22: 7 – 8)  And God did provide the lamb.