1 Kings 17:1-24

Our God is the God who is enough. There is no good thing which He withholds from them who walk uprightly. Our God is able to make all grace abound unto us, so that we, having all sufficiency in all things, may abound unto every good word and work.

Let us observe some particular places in which our God supplies our need.

• God meets our physical needs.

Before God ever created man, He created the beasts and the birds and all vegetation to provide food and raiment for man. In each separate creation for man’s welfare, God said, “It is good.”

God also placed in the heavens above, two great lights to give light upon the earth; He stocked the physical earth, itself, with minerals such as coal, and wood, oil, iron, brass, silver, gold, and all things to meet man’s need.

When David wrote, he said, “I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his descendants begging bread” (Psalm 37:25).

The Lord Jesus plainly said, “‘Do not worry, saying, “What shall we eat?” or “What shall we drink?” or “What shall we wear?” (Matthew 6:31). “‘For your Heavenly Father knows that you need all these things’” (v. 32).

• God supplies our spiritual needs.

These needs are many. First of all, man needed salvation from sin. This was fully provided in Christ, in His vicarious death upon the Cross.

Man needed strength with which to combat the enemy, and with which to meet the demands of holy living. This also was fully provided in the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Man needed spiritual understanding. The natural man could not receive the things of God, nor could he understand them. The Holy Spirit came to be our Teacher and to reveal these very things unto us.

Man needed wisfom with which to meet the issues of life. This is also freely given us of God. To those who ask, doubting nothing, God gives liberslly snd chastizes not.

• God supplies our eternal need.

Man is not created for the period that spans the cradle to the grave. He is created for all eternity. God has therefore provided in Christ Jesus that this eternity may be spent with Him above.

God has built mansions beyond the skies. He has prepared a city, of which He is “Builder and Maker.” He has fashioned a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwells righteousness. These things are proclaimed in the Word of God, and, if they were not so, God would not have told us of them.

God not only supplies our eternal abiding places, but He provides redemption by the Blood of His Cross, by which we may enter in through the gates into the City.

Let us take courage. He who watches over the sparrow, watches over us. He who clothes the grass of the field and the lily of the valley, will clothe us. In every need our God is our Jehovah-Jireh.

“Tenderly guide us, O Shepherd of love,

To the great pastures and waters above,

Guarding us ever by night and by day,

Never from Thee would we stray.

What though the heavens with clouds be o’ercast! -

Fearful the trumpet, and bitter the blast!

Still with the light of Thy Word on the way,

Never from Thee would we stray.”

Guard your heart. Teach your children. Watch and pray.