Editorial March 18, 1950 Issue

UTILIZING THE GIFTS WE POSSESS

Robert Ellis Key

When we turn wholeheartedly to God. our need is supplied. It is not a question of may be supplied, but it is supplied, always and inevitably If our need is not supplied, then we may be assured that either the seeming need is not a requisite or else mortal mind, or the mind of a mortal, has not yet yielded to Truth, but in a degree holds or maintains some mental reservation. The remedy then is closer adherence to God until mortal mind yields its consent. Our part is to work on God's side, and as we do so we shall clearly realize that God is working with us and through us.

It is a good idea to make the best use of what we have where we are, for in so doing we shall find we have all we require. When Elijah was bidden of God to go to Zarephath, God told him that a widow woman living there would sustain him. One might naturally suppose that the woman would be a wealthy woman who could entertain the prophet in a comfortable home, suitable to the dignity of his office. But that was not so. When Elijah reached the gate of the city, he saw a poor woman gathering sticks, and to her he addressed his request for refreshment. She informed him that she possessed only a "handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse," and was gathering two sticks (only two) that she might prepare a last meal for herself and her son.

Here indeed was a case of extreme penury. Elijah was not sent by God to be sustained by a wealthy woman with a large estate, but to a very poor person, so reduced by famine and circumstance that she had come to the extremity of her endurance and was about to give in to the last enemy.

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