Hard Places Reveal God’s Resources

                                                                                

Hard places help us to know the resources of God. It is only under difficult circumstances that we know His all-sufficiency.

Israel must first stand still and next behold the salvation of God. When they ceased from their acting, God revealed His power. 

And so He tells them that the reason He led them through the wilderness and exposed them to a situation where there were no natural supplies of any kind – was to teach them that He was adequate for every need, and that, "man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord" (Deut. 8:3). 

God can only become real to us up to the measure of our actual needs, and every difficult situation is just a vessel for Him to fill, and an occasion for Him to show Himself in His infinite wisdom, power and grace.

The Apostle Paul tells us, therefore, that he was exposed to every sort of difficulty in order that the power of Christ might rest upon him according to his needs, and therefore he welcomed each new situation as another vessel for God to fill and another occasion for Him to say, "My grace is sufficient for thee" (2 Cor. 12:9).

Beloved, are we thus proving and finding Him equal to all the conditions of our lives, and glorying in being able to tell the world that our God shall supply all our need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus?

~A. B. Simpson~