Praise God for the famine in our life, that drives us in utter helplessness back to Him!

Praise Him that what we have gets eaten up, and we must turn to Him for more! But how like unto the faltering, fearful family of Israel we act! We could find absolute relief, sufficiency, satisfaction in Jesus Christ; yet we delay, debate, wonder, waste time, and stay hungry.

When finally in desperation we are driven to Him we think we must do some great thing to meet His terms, and we try to carry “double the . . . silver” in all sorts of ways, to make sure of what He is yearningly waiting to give us.

He does ask us for one thing, and one only: and that is the dearest possession of our lives. With Israel’s family the dearest possession was Benjamin.

When we lay down our dearest possession, then the treasures of the kingdom are flung open to us and lavished into our life.

A drying well will often lead the spirit to the river that flows from the throne of God.