HOSPITALITY

BUT I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH Ref: 1 Kings 17

When she looked in her cupboards, they were bare except for ‘handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug.’

When Elijah asked her for a little water and a piece of bread, the Sidonian widow was afraid to share the last of her food. She needed it to feed her son the last meal she thought she’d ever feed him. There was no hope for more – the entire country was being consumed by drought and famine.

She voiced her fears to Elijah, who said, “Don’t be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and you son. For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord gives rain on the land.’” She went away and did as Elijah told her. There was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family.

When we say, “But I don’t have enough,” God says, “That’s okay, use it what you have and I’ll supply all you need.”