“But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” – Phil. 4:19
Shortly after I started preaching I was visiting with a man by the name of Max Hawkins who owned Hawkins Mill in Springfield, Mo. During the course of the conversation Max gave me a copy of “Faith’s Checkbook” by Charles Spurgeon. I’ll never forget my great delight in discovering Spurgeon’s comments on this verse. If ever I needed something to cling to at that moment this was it, and I’ve been holding on to this promise for the last 53 years and God had never failed. Spurgeon said:
Paul’s God is our God and will supply all our need. Paul felt sure of this in reference to the Philippians, and we feel sure of it as to ourselves. God will do it, for it is like Him: He loves us, He delights to bless us, and it will glorify Him to do so. His pity, His power, His love, His faithfulness, all work together that we be not famished.What a measure doth the Lord go by: “According to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” The riches of His grace are large, but what shall we say of the riches of His glory? His “riches of glory by Christ Jesus”-who shall form an estimate of this? According to this immeasurable measure will God fill up the immense abyss of our necessities. He makes the Lord Jesus the receptacle and the channel of His fullness, and then He imparts to us His wealth of love in its highest form. Hallelujah!
The writer knows what it is to be tried in the work of the Lord. Fidelity has been recompensed with anger, and liberal givers have stopped their subscriptions; but he whom they sought to oppress has not been one penny the poorer, nay, rather he has been the richer; for this promise has been true, “My God shall supply all your need.” God’s supplies are surer than any bank.
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346
