Hands That Work
Nehemiah 9:21Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn't grow old, and their feet didn't swell.
Forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell. Forty years of sustained lack-of-lack in a wilderness. Clothes and feet become witnesses. Provision can be quiet maintenance across decades. October anxiety about long seasons needs this memory. Sustained them is God's verb. Lacked nothing relative to His purpose, not relative to luxury ads. Wilderness is still wilderness; grace is still grace. Go after sustainment, not only shortcuts out. Notice clothes and feet—ordinary mercies. Bless the Lord for what has not worn out. Put confidence in Him for wilderness remaining on the map. Forty years trains patience. Your shorter wilderness still sits under the same Sustainer. Lacked nothing can be today's testimony in part.
PrayerLord, You sustained Your people forty years so they lacked nothing—sustain me in my wilderness and keep my gratitude awake. Amen.
