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~
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