Predictable Provision

Predictable Provision

I’ve become aware of something lately — something I don’t want to ignore.

A trap I have watched people fall into and I don’t want to repeat.

We’ve been in a wilderness season for the last year.
A deeper one than I have ever experienced.

No clear vision.
No predictable provision.
No sense of where things were headed.

It felt like every direction you looked was just… nothing.
Which for a driven person can feel very unsettling.

Literally it felt like all we could do each day was ask,
“God, what do You want from us today?”

And honestly — as hard as that season was — it was also a really weird kind of amazing.

God met us in a deep way.
He provided again and again.
He, as he always is, was faithful.

There was definitely no illusion of control.
No room to pretend we were responsible for any success.

We knew it was 100% Him.

Over the last couple of months, God has started to shift our season.

He has begun to reveal vision again.
Momentum is building.
Direction is forming.

And it feels like we’re standing at a threshold — about to move from wilderness into something that looks a lot more like a promise land season.

Life transitions for us often happen quickly.

But this one has been slower.

And I think it’s because God wanted to teach us something at this moment.

The same thing he taught the Israelites before they left the wilderness

He taught them...

To Remember.

Because here’s the trap that is so easy to fall into:

When provision becomes predictable, we forget the Provider.

When things start to “work,”
When income smooths out,
When vision becomes clearer,
When systems replace daily dependence…

It’s easy for something to shift.

We tend to stop waking up asking, “God, what do You want today?”
and start assuming tomorrow will look like yesterday.

Predictability feels like peace —
but it easily can start to replace trust.

I read this passage in Deuteronomy and it stopped me cold:

“I call on heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have presented you with life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore, choose life… loving Adonai your God, paying attention to what he says and clinging to him — for that is the purpose of your life.”
Deuteronomy 30:19–20 (CJB)

Clinging to Him — for that is the purpose of your life.

Not clinging to the business.
Not clinging to the blessing.
Not clinging to the fruit.

Clinging to Him.

And all I could think was:
How do I make sure I don’t forget what we have learned in the wilderness season?

It is easier to depend on God in the wilderness when you don’t have too many choices,

But, once provision starts flowing more predictably, it’s easy to shift your trust without even noticing.

To start clinging to the means instead of the Source.

When I think about clinging, I picture a little kid who has both hands wrapped around their parents neck and refuses to let go because they know they are in the safest place they could be.

Are we like that with God?

Do we cling to him with the same desperation a child does to their parents?

This season has taught me to cling to Him. 

Not because I’m awesome but because the situation required it.

Nothing else I tried to cling to worked..

Clients left.
Employees left.
Partners couldn’t save us.
Strategies didn’t work.
Discipline didn’t work.
It felt like nothing we did worked.

Yet God would still bless us — because he is always the source of our blessings.

But when provision becomes predictable again, that’s when it’s easiest to start gripping the wrong things.

We cling to people.
To plans.
To consistency.
To control.

But I don’t want to forget that all those things will fail us.

The only thing worth clinging to is God.

Which means I can loosen my grip on everything else.

No matter what season you are in, there is really only one thing to fear.

It’s forgetting who carries you through the wilderness.

The one who fights for you.

The one who protects and provides for you.

I don’t ever want to forget the God who has been faithful in every season..

So this is my prayer as we move forward:

Let me cling to You — not just when provision is uncertain,
but when it becomes predictable.

Let me remember that life isn’t found in the land,
or the momentum,
or the blessing.

Life is found in loving You, listening to You, and holding on to You.

That’s the purpose of life.

And I don’t want to forget that — ever.