The jar of flour didn’t run out, and the jug of oil didn’t run dry, just as the Lord had said through Elijah. You, dear reader, have daily needs, and because they come so frequently, you might worry that the jar of flour will one day be empty, and the jug of oil will run dry. But rest assured that, according

to God’s Word, this won’t happen. Each day, even though it brings its own troubles, will also bring its help. And even if you live as long as Methuselah and your needs are as many as the sands on the seashore, God’s grace and mercy will last through all your days, and you will never truly lack.

If it would be amazing to see a river suddenly spring up from the earth fully formed, how much more incredible would it be to see a huge spring from which all the rivers of the earth emerge at once, thousands of them born in an instant? What a sight that

would be! Who can even imagine it? Yet, God’s love is like that fountain from which all the rivers of mercy that have ever blessed humanity—all the rivers of grace in this life and glory in the next—have their source.