But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus
Philippians 4;19
The word "supply" in this promise means, literally, to fill full. Our need as it were an empty vessel, and God's supply is that which fills the vessel to the brim. The thought takes our minds back to II Kings 4, to the account of the widow and her cruse of oil. The woman is in desperate need. The creditor has come to take her sons as bondmen. She has nothing in the house but a pot of oil. The Prophet Elisha says to her, "Go borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbors, even empty vessels; borow not a few." This is promptly done. Elisha's further word is, "Thou shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full." The woman takes her solitary cruse of oil, and begins to pour out. There would be small jars, big jars, jars of all shapes and sizes. She comes to one very large container, and thinks, as she glances again at her own small oil-pot, "Why, this will never fill that!" Yet as she pours, there is more to pour, until all the receptacles are filled to utmost capacity, and she calls for yet another, only to find that the supply is greater than all that which needed to be filled. Then the oil is sold; the creditor is paid; the sons are set free; and the woman's need is "filled full" even as were the oil pots, and in a way which becomes forever a type of how God "supplies," or fills full, the needs of His people.
Though troubles assail, and dangers afright;
Though friends should all fail, and foes all unite;
Yet one thing secures us, whatever beside,
The Scripture assures us, "The Lord will provide."
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Always remember, with God all things are possible
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