Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread.

Today's reading titled God's Provision was written by Po Fong Chia.

We trekked deeper and deeper into the forest,

venturing farther and farther away from the village at

Yunnan Province, China. After an hour or so, we heard the deafening roar of the water.

Quickening our steps, we soon reached a clearing and were greeted by a beautiful view of a

curtain of white water, cascading over the

gray rocks. Spectacular. Our hiking companions who lived in the village we had left an hour earlier

decided that we should have a picnic. Great idea. But where was the food? We hadn't brought any. My friends disappeared into the

surrounding forest and returned with an assortment of fruits and vegetables and even some fish.

The Sui Chung-chae looked strange with its purple flowers, but tasted heavenly. I was reminded that

creation declares God's extravagant provision. We can see proof

of his generosity in all sorts of seed-bearing plants and trees with seed-bearing fruit. God has made

and given us for food every seed-bearing plant and every tree that has fruit with seed in it.

Do you sometimes find it hard to trust God to meet your needs?

Why not take a walk in nature?

Let what you see remind you of Jesus' assuring words from Matthew 6.

Do not worry, saying, what shall we eat or what shall we drink?

Your Heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Genesis chapter 1 verses 11 through 13 and verses 29 through 30.

Then God said, let the land produce vegetation, seed bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it,

according to their various kinds.

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