My mom and I have this ongoing debate about my responsibility to provide for my family.
She says: "the Bible says that if you don't have a job you don't eat!"
But I respond: "I thought it says if you don't work you don't eat?"
In America we think of work as getting a job.
But God’s command is to seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness, AND ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU!
That sounds like good work to me!
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We believe that in order to procure provision, we must go out and find a job. That the Bible’s command to work means finding a job. But are they one in the same? Is working and getting a job synonomous?
I don’t believe so. I think our first and foremost duty is to seek God’s Kingdom first. That we are not to worry about what we are going to eat, drink or wear. That God is our provider, just as He provides for the birds of the air.
My struggle is that all of my life I’ve been taught that as a husband and a father, I am my family’s provider. There’s even a good case for this in the scripture. But I believe it is my job to have faith in God, and seek Him first in all things that will provide for my family.
That does not however excuse any of us from working. We cannot do nothing and expect that the Lord will provide for us.
It seems there is a fine line between faith and presumption!
Plan A: Seek God and His kingdom first.
Plan B: Seek my own way.
My goal is always Plan A, but sometimes I don’t see how provision can ever come from Plan A, so I consent to Plan B. That way at least I’ll be able to provide for my family. But in the end is that God’s plan - Plan A? It may be, but did I take the time to find out?
To me, it comes back to a matter of faith, listening and obedience.
But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. (1 Timothy 5:8)
The second passage is a little bit out of context. The passage is referring to taking care of widows. Paul says that the widows are primarily the responsibility of their children and grandchildren. If the children and grandchildren would not provide for their widowed mother or grandmother, they were worse than an unbeliever.
For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat. (2 Thessalonians 3:10)
Paul is talking here about freeloaders in the first reference. Folks who do nothing all day, and go an mooch off others. They do nothing to add value and substance to the body. They only take value and substance. I think the term is called "parasite." Parasites are destructive. Paul's command is to cut these folks off from the food, so that they will be forced to work.
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