He is the Supply

“We are but a capacity, He is the supply.”

-AB Simpson

This quote has been open on my computer, at the top of an otherwise blank document, for several weeks.  I typed it there, was interrupted (imagine that!), closed the laptop, and left it there. Every time I was feeling desperate, needing to type a blog post or needing to prepare for a speaking event, or needing to study for women’s Bible study, every time I felt inadequate or empty, I would just happen to flip open my computer, open Word, and there was this WORD just for me.

Over and over and over He’s been whispering it to my heart. You are but a capacity, I am the supply.

What does this mean?

This means if He calls me to speak to two people or two thousand people, and I feel hopelessly inadequate, it doesn’t much matter … He is the supply.

This means on the days when parenting gets hard, and I’m hitting the wall of my own ability, feeling lost and overwhelmed with how to raise a particular child, it’s ok that I’ve reached the end of myself … He is the supply.

This means when there are 55,000 words to be written in the next five months and I’m staring at blank pages and fear begins whispering, “You don’t have what it takes…” I can turn from the screen up to the Father and recall the truth … He is the supply.

This means when He leads us to a vision bigger than ourselves, and He begins cutting loose the old ways, the safe ways, the risk-free ways, and when I’m facing the free fall of faith and I’m not sure I have enough courage to go this way, I remember I don’t need to have enough anything, because He is the supply.

We all are learning to step into the unknown. It looks different for each of us, but guaranteed none of us are called to be sufficient, in and of ourselves. None of us are called to something we can handle on our own. None of us has “got what it takes” to do whatever faith-thing faces us today. Thankfully, we have a promise. His promise:

His commandments are His enablements. In other words, He will never call me to do something unless He also supplies the resources (ability) I need to do just that.

And, it’s worth noting the supply doesn’t usually come in advance. *smile* I don’t get a lump sum of resources ahead of time. When I need it, He provides it. When I step out into the “need,” into the emptiness, into the unknowing, He brings the road up to meet my feet and provides the words, wisdom, wealth, or strength to go His way.

Guaranteed.

{Resting in His limitless supply today. Happy Monday! Thank you for reading.}