Need and Supply

Need and Supply

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves… (2 Corinthians 4:7 – NASB)

Some things are purposely made with a built-in need. For instance, we shape cups in such a way that an empty space is created. Why? So we can fill them with some substance such as tea of coffee for our refreshment. Human hearts are created with such a space, or emptiness. Why? So God can pour His fullness into our empty places.

One Great Need*

(© 1979 by Christopher Shennan)

One great need is all I am.

I’m finished with putting my trust in man;

Or in myself, this earth-bound weed;

All that I am is one great need.

 

What have I done in my earthly flight?

I’ve drawn o’er my soul a darker night;

I open my heart to that Heavenly seed:

All that I am – is one great need.

 

You pity me, friend, in my sad lament,

With my head bowed low and my garments rent?

A smoking flax and a bruised reed:

All that I am is one great need.

 

But please don’t judge me before I’m done –

Before prayer’s answered or the victory won.

It is just one part of my living creed:

All that I am is one great need.

 

All that I am is one great need,

But now to the truth that my soul has freed:

Oh with such joy do I look on high –

I’ve found that my Lord’s One Great Supply.

 

One Great supply in the trials of life;

In the inward struggles or the bitter strife.

Though in one great need I am made to die,

You must know that my Lord’s One Great Supply.

 

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 Picture by Joanne Shennan – used by permission