The Joy of Walking with Christ

How many times has the Lord said, “Yield up the pieces, the scraps, the leftovers of your life.  All you’ve got is all I need to make a mountain from your molehill of faith”? 

He said that through Elisha to a woman who came to the prophet in great distress.  Her sons were about to be sold into slavery as a settlement for her late husband’s debts.  The widow had one small container of oil, nothing else of value.  “Gather up all of your empty vessels, whatever old pots and pitchers you can find or borrow,” the prophet commanded, “and begin to fill them with oil.”  The widow did as she was bid, and she found to her amazement that there was enough oil to fill every vessel, enough to pay the debt and keep her family for life.

God stands ready to transform all that we offer (when it is all that we have) into all that we need.