腓立比书 4:19

The God whom He had learnt to know so well in all circumstances — my God, as he called Him — would supply all their need. It is not a wish that He may do so, nor a prayer that he prays, but it is an assured fact. He knows his God so well that he counts on Him for the supply of all the need of the beloved saints according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

"My God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus," the God to whom I belong, and who, in a certain sense, belongs to me — the God whose faithfulness I know — who fed me when hungry, who strengthened me when weak. It is exceedingly sweet to see that what Paul had passed through had brought him so near to God. He has found in all things, in prison, in want, etc., the sure certainty of being associated with God.

The Philippians themselves... had further impoverished themselves, further reduced their already slender resources by their gifts in favour of an aged prisoner who could in no wise reciprocate or help them. Paul felt this and in verse 19 he expresses his confidence as to them. God would supply all their need. Notice how he speaks of Him as, "My God," — the God whom Paul knew and had practically tested for himself. That God would be their Supplier, not according to their need, nor even according to Paul's ardent desires on their behalf, but according to His own riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

What they did thus, in their self-denying love, they might do fearlessly. For the living and true God, whose grace they knew, and whom Paul, in his fuller knowledge, calls emphatically his own, would amply repay. They had filled this true minister of God with their willing and grateful kindness, and his God should fill them in return with the blessings of His goodness. It is a large promise and of a continuous fulfilment. Both here and hereafter the true need of God's children will be met by Him in faithfulness, according to the measure of His own fulness, both of grace and glory in Christ Jesus.

It would have been a wonderful thing had God engaged to supply them according to His riches on earth in Christ Jesus. His riches in glory are more wonderful still. The Philippians or ourselves may never be rich in the things of earth and yet be enriched in the things of glory. If so we shall indeed respond, in attributing glory to God our Father for ever and ever.

All the resources of God, His riches in glory, are in Christ Jesus, and from those infinite stores God is able to meet our every need, whether spiritual or material.

Christ is then the object of the Christian where He is in heaven... while we wait, we are to be in constant dependence upon Him, looking to Him at all times, and in all circumstances, for, says the Apostle, "My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus" (4:19). For ourselves and for others in whom we are interested to look to Christ, who has resources in glory to meet every need, whether spiritual or temporal.

God does care to supply all your need, but He has a plan of His own, a plan in which He has everything to satisfy the heart to overflowing. He will supply all the present need of His people, and then give them riches in glory by Christ Jesus for evermore.