BENEFIT OF INSUFFICIENCE

"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises." - Samuel Butler 

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The common excuse as to why we aren't succeeding, is that of how much we lack: many of us cite 'lack' as a major hindrance, but I beg to differ.

Noted Bible teacher E. Schuyler English told of Michael Billester, a Bible distributor who visited a small hamlet in Poland shortly before World War II. Billester gave a Bible to a villager, who was converted by reading it. The new believer then passed the Book on to others. The cycle of conversions and sharing continued until 200 people had become believers through that one Bible. When Billester returned in 1940, this group of Christians met together for a worship service in which he was to preach the Word. He normally asked for testimonies, but this time he suggested that several in the audience recite verses of Scripture. One man stood and said, "Perhaps we have misunderstood. Did you mean verses or chapters?" These villagers had not memorized a few select verses of the Bible but whole chapters and books. Thirteen people knew Matthew, Luke, and half of Genesis. Another person had committed to memory the Psalms. That single copy of the Bible given by Billester had done its work. Transformed lives bore witness to the power of the Word.

Many times we're limited not by what we lack, but by what we have. I doubt anyone of those people in that little hamlet would have memorized whole chapters, had they enough copies of the bible to go round. The point is, many times in our lives God seemingly allows insufficiency to teach us how much we can do with what we already have.

Let us pray: Father, open my eyes to see what I already have, in Jesus name.

WISDOM NUGGET: 2 Peter 1:3
"His divine power has given us everything we need..." - NIV