A Little Is A Lot

When we are willingly to give God our smallest offering, He will not only provide for us but will increase it!

God comes to us in our most desperate hour and visits us. Like the widow gathering firewood who had enough to bake a small meal for her son. This will be their last meal, but the prophet Elijah appears. It says the Lord “commanded” this woman to feed him (I Kings 17:8-15). In the original, the word command means “appoint”.

God has appointed or chosen you. He will make supernatural provision to meet your needs so you can meet the needs of others. This widow being a gentile was considered an outcast by the Jews, yet a Jewish prophet comes to her home. As a widow she was left with no financial support.

But God appoints us and comes to us in our weakness, in our poverty and in our hunger. Why? To demonstrate He alone has the power to save and deliver us. It’s not within our ability to change, provide or make any difference in our lives or the lives of others without His help.

When God comes to visits us He will ask us to surrender the little we have in our possession. Elijah boldly asks to be fed first, but gives a promise to the widow that she will be fed until the famine is over (verse 13).

What little has God given you that you may offer it to Him? You may think that I have nothing to offer. I’m bound by this addiction or don’t have a job or money, or you don’t know where I've been or what I've done. Why would God visit me in my desperate hour and call me to serve Him?

A poor widow put in a mite, the least valuable Roman coin (similar to our modern day penny)but Jesus sees monetary value very differently. Mark 12:43 records, "Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others" (NIV).

Likewise Jesus says in Matthew 17:20, “… if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.”

The little you give to the Lord is a lot when it comes from a sincere heart!