"Open your mouth, and I will fill it!"

Psalm 81

God says to Israel - and to us -
"Come to me. Serve me only. I will satisfy your deepest needs with myself. Ask for what you need. Depend on me for it. And I will provide!"

But we choose to go our own way, to hold to our sin, to think that serving God is a slavery and that  serving ourselves will be freedom.

How backwards our sin-corrupted natures perceive reality! For in truth it is God who frees us from our slavery, who gives us in its place his own sweet service, where we find him meeting every need, abundantly!