Article January 17, 1948 Issue

MAKING THE MOST OF WHAT WE HAVE

H. PHELPS GATES

Are you making the most of each moment's blessings and opportunities? Are you making practical and realistic use of all the resources that are available to you now, just where you are? Or are you a wishful thinker, unhappy with what you have today, dreaming and hoping that some magic morrow may bring you the things you seem to lack?

Both the Old and the New Testament are filled with stirring examples of men and women who proved God's power to reveal that adequate resources were at hand, however inadequate material sense claimed them to be.

For the children of Israel, God's provision was manifested in the form of manna, water from the rock, and clothing that waxed not old. Gideon's little God-inspired band found its spiritual resources of God-reliance sufficient to put the hosts of the enemy to flight. Elisha, when told by the needy widow that there was "not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil" (II Kings 4:2), trusted Mind to produce its own phenomena. Thus the oil multiplied until all the available vessels were filled and there was an abundance to pay the widow's debt and to provide for herself and her children. Christ Jesus utilized the same unfailing spiritual law when from seven loaves and a few fishes he fed the "four thousand men, beside women and children" (Matt. 15:38).

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