Our car broke down. Gainful employment was scarce. We’d struggled to find a new church community after moving. Loved ones faced challenges with their health and needed help, but traveling to reach them was more than we could afford.
Overall, it seemed we were lacking. We were short on finances, resources, energy, community, availability, and all the things we felt we needed.
During this season, I stumbled across 2 Peter 1:3-11. The first part of verse 3 struck me deeply, “His divine power has given us everything required for life and godliness[.]” (2 Peter 1:3) The verse also brings to mind a line from the chorus of Great Is Thy Faithfulness, “All I have needed Thy hand hath provided.”
I struggled to see how God provided “everything we needed” during that season, and I’ve certainly wrestled with this truth since then, too. Still, God has graciously shown me over and over that what I need for life and godliness, He does provide.
Join me at Gracefully Truthful to reflect on God’s faithful provision.
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I absolutely love this post, Bethany. What a beautiful testimony to God’s faithfulness: “By the time that season ended, it was hard to argue that anything we had wasn’t provided by God because it had all come about in ways that only He can work.” Your mention of “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” reminds me of the time in my own life when God used this hymn to show me that He provides even the hard things, if that is what He chooses to use to do His work in our lives. “All I have needed, Thy hand hath provided.”
Aw, thank you, Lois! I’m so grateful for His faithfulness – then and now! What a great point that sometimes what we need is something that is hard, but that He is using. Thanks for that : )
Thank you for sharing this blessed message today. Blessed.
Visiting today from Recharge Wednesday #4
It is part of the human journey to struggle and question at times….yet God is good through it all. Often it takes hindsight to truly see and understand that. Keep the faith…
You too! Thanks for stopping by!