God Is My Portion

https://odb.org/MY/2021/09/30/all-that-you-need

As humans, we are not perfect. That’s a given. So we might not be as tall as we would have liked. Or we may not be as fair in skin tone. Or we may not have that much hair, that lush long and thick hair. Maybe our features are not so sharp, eyes not so big or we do not have double eyelids. Or we may not have had tertiary education or didn’t do Masters or PhD or didn’t pass that professional course like CLP or ACCA. Or maybe we have yet to own our own home or buy that German luxury car. Perhaps we don’t sing that well or play guitar or piano or bass that well or don’t play saxophone or drums. Perhaps we don’t speak that well in public or don’t preach so well. Or we are still working for people and have not become a business owner. Or like the ODB life story of today, we do not have biological children of our own. Or maybe we are afflicted with a disease that has caused us to be handicapped in some ways. Or we were born deaf or blind. Or had become immobile due to disease or an accident.

Whatever is our lack or imperfection, some things can be changed like our physique with weight training or our educational credentials by studying for it or our property, by saving up for our first house. But there are things that are permanent like our height or fertility or lack of vision or hearing.

The message today is that God is our portion. He perfects and completes us by being our portion, meaning to say, we can carry on with life as we are because we have God and God will be that substitute for our lack. If we are lonely because we have lost our life partner, God is there to be with us and comfort us. He will be our companion, our partner in life. We can do things and go about life with God at our side, doing things together with us. Whatever lack or void we have, God will be our portion. If we do not have an earthly inheritance and have had to build our earthly life from scratch, God is our inheritance.

I think whatever the hand of fate had dealt us, we now have a destiny because of our faith in God. We may turn fate to faith. Ultimately we now have God with us and thus we must forever be grateful that God found us and reached out to us, to be our portion. The Levites were not allocated land when the other 11 tribes were. With land, one can cultivate produce and rear livestock and the land itself has perpetual intrinsic value. God then became their portion, they live off the tithes and offerings given to God by the other tribes. So they didn’t have land that will appreciate in value over time but they had a permanent place in the house of the LORD, a constant nearness to the glory of the LORD in the Temple. They had what David described in Pslam 23 as the goodness and mercy of God for the rest of their lives by having the privilege to dwell in the House of the LORD forever, literally and not figuratively. God became their portion. God can and will become our portion too as we offer ourselves as a living sacrifice unto Christ! He is indeed our portion, our rock and salvation! Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!