Here's a fun quiz for you.
Maybe you'll win Jeopardy or HQ some day with this information.
What are the only two countries in the entire world
that name themselves as Christian countries
in their constitution?
Give up yet?
Well, one is Vatican City, which actually is considered a country.
And the other
is Zambia, the country that I visited this summer.
Now I'm not suggesting that America should declare
itself a Christian country and force Christianity on everyone.
I don't think that would go over so well.
But in my experience over in Zambia,
there's something to this.
There's something to everyone understanding
and having the common knowledge
that God is the backbone, the foundation
for everything that you do.
So, you go out to a remote farming village,
and there you see people who fully understand.
If God doesn't make the sun rise and the rain to fall,
they won't survive because they won't have crops.
Or, you can even go to the big city
where a lot of people are just trying to scrape by with
construction jobs and service jobs.
Some people have these pop-up shops,
no bigger than a shed in an American back yard,
where they sell basics for life.
They know
they need God to bless the so they can put food on the table.
Have you lost touch with this most basic concept for life?
I know I do sometimes.
I get so focused on my life
and my things and I have to earn this money and provide for my family.
And I want to give my children this future that I dream of,
that they dream of and I want to earn this great retirement for myself.
And I get lost in all these thoughts and suddenly I forget.
It doesn't depend on me.
It depends on God.
We would all do well to listen to the words of King David.
He wrote in Psalm 145,
almost three thousand years ago these words that are so special,
Maybe you don't depend on God
to help grow all the crops in your backyard.
But I want you to think about this intricate web that
God uses in your life.
Because there are farmers
and people who have crops.
And they ship them off to factories.
And there're truck drivers who deliver them to stores.
And there're store managers and stock boys and check-out clerks and
of course, you pay for those things with money.
And, whether you like your job or not,
you have some kind of income and you have
a support network of friends and family.
All of these things
God uses to bless you.
To open His hands and provide
everything that you need in life.
Learn something that I learned
from the African people.
Learn something from King David.
God will always provide
everything you need.
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