A table of provision

A dear friend sent this quote my way this afternoon...

"Sometimes the Lord brings us into the very heart of the wilderness,
just to prove to us how easily and how readily He can provide a table for us even there.
And when all other resources are exhausted, and all supply is cut off, and every spring of water is dried up,
Lo! He opens the eye of our faith to see what His heart of love has prepared.

Are you, dear reader, sitting down to weep like Hagar?
Or like Elijah, in the wilderness-desolate, weary, and exhausted?
Oh, see what appropriate and ample nourishment your God and Father has provided for you.

"Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart," for all this table of provision, is for you.
All the love that is in God's heart,
all the grace that is in the Savior's nature,
all the comfort that is in the Spirit's tenderness,
all are yours!

He is in all your salvation!
He is in all your mercies!
He is in all your trials!
He is in all your consolations,
And in all your afflictions!
What more can you want? What more do you desire?

A Father who loves you as the apple of His eye,
A full Savior to whom to go, moment by moment,
And a blessed indwelling, sanctifying, comforting Spirit,
to reveal all to you, and to give you Himself, as the "pledge of your inheritance,
until the redemption of the purchased possession." - Octavius Winslow


In the midst of loss and trial, how easy it is for me to focus on what has been taken, what I don't have, what has changed, and how hard things can be...yes, even now. What a great reminder, that the Lord allows me to be in this place to show me that even here, He is committed to providing my every need. The road we are on and what's ahead can almost seem overwhelming at times, YET He has and will continue to sustain us with His grace and with this table of provision that is all I could want or desire.