13th February 2021
PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS
David Abankwah
“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
-Matthew 6:31 | NKJV
Physiological worry is the anxiousness, desperation, and much concern for the needs for the normal functioning of the body. We need food to eat, water to drink, clothes to wear, where to sleep and all that. In fact, without these needs, the body which is the garment for the soul to live in a physical world, will perish physically. Imagine fasting for few days without food. The body which needs physical needs such as food and water cannot survive without it. You can pray all you can but it is not prayer that will fill your belly. You can read the Bible all you can but it is not the Word of God that will fill the belly of your body. You can go to church all you can but it is not that, that will fill your belly.
The body and the soul are in different worlds and they all need certain things to survive before. Before God created the body which He knew would have to operate in the physical world, He first had to create all the physiological needs that man couldn’t survive without. He created different kinds of plants and animals for food, four streams of water for drinking and irrigation purposes. Man was placed in the Garden of Eden as his house. Man was also given a job of watching and tilling the ground to do by God so he could have daily income to support himself and the wife he would soon marry. God had to make all these needs available for man before bringing him Eve to marry.
If you struggle to support yourself with your needs, how are you going to support others? If you struggle as a man for your physiological needs, how do you expect to feed your own family. That is why before a man marries, he must first have a job to do. God demonstrated that in the Garden of Eden. All these physiological needs have to be met before you marry. All these physiological needs have to be met before you can extend help to the needy and the poor. But the issue God has with us is that, when our needs are met, we tend to forget that it is Him who provided all those things. Because we are God’s images, He has to provide for us all (lovers and enemies of Him).
Whether or not you serve God, He is going to provide your physiological needs. He provides for those who obey His commandments and those who do not. This is where many believers get it wrong. When they struggle with what they need, they compare themselves with prospering sinners. They say this person doesn’t even believe in God but he is blessed financially; he has this, he has that. But what believers don’t understand is that, God didn’t call us to be Christians because of physiological needs that He wants to meet. He called us for eternal life. Sinners can be prosperous physically but they don’t have eternal life. Their prosperity ends when they die.
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Lift up prayers for the grace to refrain from worries when your physiological needs are not met in the name of Jesus Christ.
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What Christians have that sinners don’t have, is eternal life.
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