New Morning Mercies: Need

From 3-17 reading - "...when you tell yourself that something is a need, 3 things follow. First, you feel entitled to the thing, because, after all, it is a need. Second, because it is a need, you feel it's your right to demand it. And third, you then judge the love of another person by his or her willingness to deliver the thing. This not only happens in our relationships with one another, but more important, it happens in our relationship with God. When you name something as a need and God doesn't deliver it; you begin to doubt his goodness. What is deadly about this is that you simply don't run for help to someone whose character you've come to doubt. 

In Matthew 6:32, Jesus reminds us that we have a Heavenly Father who knows exactly what we need...the comfort is that, by grace, we have been made to be the children of the wisest, most loving Father that the universe has ever known. We can rest in the grace that has made us his children, knowing that our place in his family guarantees that we will have what we need." - Paul Tripp, New Morning Mercies