The Future of Impossible Situations

 

But his servant said,

"How can I set this

    before a hundred men?"

So he repeated,

"Give them to the men

that they may eat

for thus says the LORD,

"They shall eat 

      and have some left."

So he set it before them.

And they ate

   and had some left,

according to the word of the LORD.

              2 Kings 4. 43

When we are faithful

    in following the LORD,

even into what

   we cannot yet understand,

God's fundamental law of 

       leftovers kicks in.

Lay before Him our day,

our work,

our efforts,

     and He multiplies.

What seems to us a lack,

   God redeems for His glory

in ways we may never

               comprehend.

The point here is

      not what God can do,

but are we willing

     to submit to Him?

O LORD,

We bring before You

what seems to be

    an impossible situation.

We lay it on the altar

   that You may touch it

and turn the natural

            into the supernatural

and the ordinary

      into the extraordinary.

Help us to be sensitive

     to the needs of others.

And to be aware of 

     Your hand upon us. 

You do not just show up.

      You sustain us.