GOD'S GENEROSITY

Yes, they spoke against God: They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?  Behold, He struck the rock, So that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can He give bread also? Can He provide meat for His people?” (Psalm 78:19-20 NKJV)

So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them their own desire.  (Psalm 78:29 NKJV)

 

This is always the cry of unbelief, Can God? While the triumphant assertion of faith is: God can. What a difference is wrought by the colliding of words! Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? God can spread a table, even in the wilderness, and in the presence of our enemies our cup can overflow. Can He give bread also? He can satisfy the desire of every living thing, by the opening of His hand. Can You do anything for us, our child is grievously possessed of the devil? If you can believe, all things are possible to him that believes.

The wanderings of the Israelites for forty years were due to the fact that they looked at their difficulties and questioned if God could overcome them. Among the people, only Caleb and Joshua looked away from the Canaanites and their fortified cities to Him who had brought them where they were, and was pledged to free them. Some people speak of Giants with a capital G, and forget to magnify the power of God. What wonder that they account themselves as grasshoppers, and lose heart! Let us not forget that we are sons and daughters of God, "heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ." (Compare Numbers 13:33 and Romans 8:17.)

Look back on the past; see what God has done for you; remember He is pledged to finish what He has begun. If He gave water, He can certainly give bread.

"They did eat, and were well filled." When we are poor and needy, we are inclined to humble prayer. But if suddenly our lot is changed, and there is abundance instead of poverty, how often there is a change in our demeanor. We are apt to become self-indulgent, and forgetful of the needs of the world. Instead of remembering that we are still God's pensioners, we magnify ourselves as though we were exclusive owners. Probably this is why God keeps some of us in poverty, for no greater temptation could befall us than to find ourselves with riches. In this way He answers our daily prayer, "Lead us not into temptation!"

PRAYER

We thank You our heavenly Father, for the new mercies of each returning day, for all that You have given to us, and for what You have not. May we be receptive of all things that pertain to life and godliness.  I pray in Jesus' name, AMEN.

God's Daily Promise

Promise #285:
Even if your mother forgets you, I will never forget you.

Isaiah 49:15 (WEB)
“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!