“Thou hast nothing to draw with.”~ Jn. 4:11
This woman had the same problem many of us have. She was delaying God’s blessings upon her life because of her question, “How is He going to do it.” (“Thou hast nothing to draw with”). How can you give me water without a bucket? How often we fuse the physical with the Spiritual, missing what God has for us, because of our human reasoning. “But,” someone says, “Doesn't God use human resources?” Yes, many times over. I grant you, He still uses obedient “widow women,” but I remind you, also, He still has “ravens” flying overhead, waiting for His beckoning call.
Israel is a good illustration of questioning the “how” of God’s plan. In Psalm 78 we read, “Can God furnish a table in the wilderness...can he give bread also…can he provide flesh for the people?” Sound familiar? “Can he…Can he…Can he? I’m sure none of us have ever thought or said such a thing. It says, “…they believed not…they trusted not.” Why the lack of faith? Simple, they could not answer the “how” question. The advice of the wise man is, “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”
God is waiting to put an artesian well in some of us, as soon as we cease trying to understand how He will do it. Too many of us are more concerned with the bucket than the blessing. Let’s stop worrying about the “how,” and believe He can and will. He is still able, “…to do exceeding abundantly above all we ask or think.” The woman, like us, forgot a little line in Isaiah which says, “Who hath measured waters in the hollow of his hand.”
“My misgivings come from the fact that I ransack my own person to find out how He will be able to do it.” (Oswald Chambers)
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