It Is Not About What You Have

Matthew 15:34

And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.

The Christian life is never about your abilities or talents, but about giving your abilities and talents to the God who can do the miraculous with them. Jesus asked the disciples, How many loaves have ye? Their answer, Seven, and a few little fishes. Hold on, Jesus asked the same question at an earlier service that He held, and the result was they had five loaves of bread and two fishes. In both instances, Jesus met the need of the crowd with what He had to use.

You will recall at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry, He was at a wedding that had run out of wine. Jesus told them to fill the pots with water, and He took the water and turned it into the best wine they had ever tasted. In every miracle that Jesus performed, it had nothing to do with what they had, but it had everything to do with them giving what they had to Jesus, and Jesus multiplying it to meet the present need.

My friend, there is an important principle you must grasp if God will use you in your life. Too many people look at what they have and think they don't have what is needed, but you have all you need if you have God. God is always able to take what you have and show His mighty power by using what you have to meet the need of the day.

Throughout the Scriptures, you will see that God takes the tool He has and miraculously uses it to meet the need of the day. Moses could not speak eloquently, but God used Moses to lead the Israelites for forty years. The widow woman only had a handful of meal and a bit of oil in the cruse, but God took it and provided for Elijah throughout the whole famine. God took a scared Gideon and miraculously used him to defeat the great Midianite army with three hundred men. God’s tools and resources that He has to use are often not talented or plentiful, but the tools and resources are enough for God to do the miraculous in the hand of an omnipotent God.

Do you think your prayers are not eloquent enough to get answered? Do you think you are not a person who can pray very well? Let me remind you that it is not about how well you can pray, but about the God who answers the prayer that truly matters.

Do you think your talents are too little for God to use? If God can preach a sermon through a donkey, I am confident that He can use you. If God can take eleven men who were considered unlearned and ignorant to turn the world upside down for Christ, I would imagine He can use you to do something mighty for Him.

Do you think you don't have the resources needed to do something for God? If God can take seven loaves and few fishes to feed four thousand men, He can take whatever your resources are and perform the miraculous with them.

My friend, it is never about what you have, but it is about giving what you have to an omnipotent God to see Him work the miraculous with your little. If you will give what you have and stop worrying about how it compares to what everyone else has, you will find that God is very capable of using you to do something great for Him. God wants to use you, but you must be willing to give what you have for Him to use you. Whatever you have, if you will give it to God, He will multiply what you gave to do the miraculous with your little.