Fulfilled From A Fulfillment Center?

I’m dating myself here…

I used to order from catalogs, the paper ones that came in the mail.  The catalogs had camping gear, clothes, gifts, you name it.  You found the item or items you wanted, wrote the item number(s) on an order form, put the order form in the envelope, wrote out and enclosed a check, put a stamp on the envelope and mailed it to the catalog company.

Once the company received it and processed your check, they boxed up the item(s) and shipped it to you from a distribution center (sometimes called a processing center or mailing facility or packaging facility).

Then came Amazon…

No more paper catalogs.  No more paper order forms.  You don’t mail a check in an envelope.  Instead you have on line shopping carts and charge cards on file and stored address information.

Not only all that, but distribution centers (or processing centers, mailing facilities and packaging facilities) seem to have gone the way of the dinosaur.  Now Amazon uses fulfillment centers to get your order together and ship it to you.

Just think, your desires, in the form of items that you order, are now fulfilled from a fulfillment center.  Wow!  What could be better!  But to clarify, the desires fulfilled from their fulfillment centers are limited to what you can buy from Amazon, although that probably encompasses just about everything!

Which leads us to the age old dilemma of desires versus needs; we might desire something that we really don’t need.  Or, we might need something that we don’t desire.

The good news is that the dilemma is solved, not by Amazon, but by God.  He knows exactly what we need:

And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.  (2 Cor 9:8)

Not only does He know what we need, He provides all that we need!

His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.  (2 Peter 1:3)

Not only does provide all that we need, He provides everything that we need!

But the “all” and the “everything” are not necessarily just for ourselves but that we may be engaged in good works and that we might live godly lives.  So in order for us to do both, He knows exactly what we need and He provides it!