I don’t know about you, but I can remember several instances when I wondered HOW our pressing need would be met. It just seemed impossible from my perspective.
Immediately after we encountered the unimaginable of our infant son growing ill and being hospitalized, we were slammed with a mountain of medical bills. To top it off, we were instructed to give our son a special formula that cost hundreds of dollars which was not covered by our health insurance.
Did I mention that all of the above transpired just months after I quit my job to become a stay at home mom, we moved from New York to Texas, and we had just signed a contract to build a home in our new city?
We were faced with the blaring question: Where were we going to come up with this extraordinary amount of money needed to pay for those things?
At that moment, it seemed inevitable to ask ourselves if we really had heard God correctly about the decisions we made and then, wonder if we had made a mistake. After all, if we were back in New York, we would have also had my salary.
Then, a check arrived … an unexpected gift of love.
Thank You, Lord. Even when we feared and worried about what to do, He provided in the most amazing way and our need was met.
In 1 Kings 17:1-5, we read about the prophet Elijah. He obeyed the Lord in telling King Ahab that there would be a drought in the land. Elijah obeyed again when the Lord told him to leave the land and hide in the Kerith Ravine, a narrow steep-sided valley that travelers have described as one of the wildest ravines.
I wonder if Elijah was questioning how he was going to survive out there without food or shelter. Verse 6 tells us how the Lord sent ravens who “brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.”
Thank You, Lord. Elijah did not struggle with hunger or thirst because He provided in the most profound way.
Philippians 4:19 reminds us, “And my God will supply every need of yours according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.”
Thomas Chisholm who wrote the hymn “Great is Thy Faithfulness” explained that while he had little income and battled illness, he had to pen the “unfailing faithfulness of a covenant-keeping God” through these beautiful words:
“Great is Thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided;
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!”*
~Joyce
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*”The History of ‘Great is Thy Faithfulness'” by Eric Wyse on Lifeway
