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- ABUNDANCE FROM LITTLE
This post is for anytime you feel that you aren’t enough and anytime you feel empty. It actually happens to everyone at a point in life, the only thing is, you don’t have to stay there longer than you should. I hope this piece helps you out in those dark times
I would like to share with you two stories in the bible, the first is the story of Elijah and the widow at Zarephath and the second is the widow’s olive oil.
Elijah and the widow at Zarephath( 1 Kings 17:7-16)
This woman wasn’t only a widow, she had a son to cater for and she was about to finish her last meal and wait for death(v12). She must’ve been in a very dark place and felt empty too. She probably might have felt not enough for her son. This woman caught God’s attention so he sent his prophet to her. God asked her to feed his prophet(v9). Why would God want someone who had little to nothing share that little? Why didn’t God rather ask Elijah to bless the little and increase it? God wanted that little, even though the woman saw it as nothing and thought it was going to be her last meal, God saw an abundance.
The widow’s olive oil(2 Kings 4:1-7)
Another widow here but this time with creditors on her threatening to take her sons away( v.1). This must’ve been very devastating as well. When she went to prophet Elisha, he asked her what do you have? She replied “nothing at all …”. She actually had something, she had a jar of oil(v.2b) but she didn’t see it as anything. God was able to let that oil flow till there was no jar left to fill( v.5). It was from that one jar of oil that she had many jars filled with oil.
So you see, it’s okay to have little and feel “not enough”, you only have to learn to give it to God. He knows how to let abundance flow from little.
There is a way you give yourself to God in little ways which yields more for you.
- BECAUSE OF ETERNITY
It is natural to be quick to think someone’s trials or sufferings are as a result of their sins or rather it is easy and less painful to think that people suffer because of their sins. If it were so life would be easier.
Job 1 actually begins with an introduction of who Job was. The bible says he was blameless and righteous. That was the criteria for the trouble he went theough( lol). Even his friends who were kind enough to stay with him thought that he had than something wrong, but he was blameless.
I’m sure you have wondered why certain people go through what they are going through. I’m sure you think it would be fair if bad things happened to only good people. It isn’t always like that. Sometimes, no one suffers less. People go through a whole lot because of many reasons and sometimes for no reason.
Then what is the essence for being upright and blameless?
The major reason is ETERNITY.
Now, that should scare you and be a good enough reason to be upright and righteous.
Revelation:16.15
“Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully exposed.”
Revelation:22.12
“Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done.
In the end everything you do will matter and it may be too late to make amends.
So, for now we all may go through fire and you may even go through worse because the devil is after you just like he was after Job but the Lord indeed knows His own.
Let them all grow together.
LIVING THE VALUED LIFE
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