I n l o o k i n g to God for deliverance of any kind, we are prone to try to discover what material H e has on hand to work on in coming to our relief. If we are praying for financial help, we are apt to look over the community to see if we can think of any one whom the Lord might influence to lend us some money. If there are no apparent signs of help in that direction, it is difficult, indeed, to believe for hard cash. If it is employment we need in order to insure the continuance of our bread and butter, we make diligent inquiries in the industrial centers, and, if we find that the shops, stores and factories are more than full handed, it is pretty hard to be hopeful that we are going to get work. If we are ill and our physician is at a loss to know what next to try in order to alleviate us, it is not at all easy to convince ourselves that we are going speed ily to recovery. It is so human to look and crave for something in sight that will help the Lord out. In time of need, if we can only find a little something for God to begin on, we seem so much better satisfied. To need a sum of money and not to be able to think of a friend, a man or a monied institution from which it might be ob tained, gives a dark background to the scene. To need work, and to find that throngs of others as needy as yourself are also idle, makes the human outlook very dark. To be in bed day after day, feeling no better, but rather worse, doctor’s bills increasing, business suffering and patience giving out, make a situation in which relief does not seem very probable. The trouble is, there does not appear to be a single human prospect to begin on. The outlook is all liabil ities, with no resources to help out. Now, to God’s child, what is the real situation? Is there nothing but liabilities? Much every way. Are there no resources? Yea, thousands, millions, billions, trillions! Where are they? Above you, below you, around you. Earth and air are full of wealth untold. You don’t need to see it. Keep your eye on Him.
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Just think a moment. It is not at all necessary for you to see any help in sight, nor is it really necessary for God to have any relief on hand. He does not need anything to begin on. “ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” What did He make them out of? Nothing, absolutely nothing. When the earth was made what did He hang it on? Nothing. A most satisfactory earth to be made of nothing. Remem ber, not a scrap of anything was used to make it. “He . . . hangeth the earth upon nothing.” It hangs all right, doesn’t it? Very well, then. A God Who can make an earth, a sun, a moon and stars out of nothing, and keep them hanging on nothing, can supply all your needs, whether He has anything to begin to work with or not. Wonderful, isn’t it? Trust Him and He will see you through, though He has to make your supplies out of nothing.
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