More _________. Whatever we typically put in that blank, we think more of it will make us happy, make our life better or make people like us. We’re always trying to get more, but a little is often a lot. We must learn to manage and be content with a little before we get a lot. The Bible is full of stories of people who only had a little and God made it into more. There was the widow with oil who made food for Elijah. There’s the story of a little boy with his lunch of fish and bread that Jesus used to feed 5,000. It doesn’t matter whether you have a little or a lot. What matters is that whatever you do have, be faithful with it and trust God with it. A little can be a lot when God is involved.
Here are some Bible verses on having a little:
1. It is much better to have little combined with much of God than to have the fabulous wealth of the wicked and nothing else.
Psalms 37:16 TPT
2. Better to have little, with fear for the Lord, than to have great treasure and inner turmoil.
Proverbs 15:16 NLT
3. The one who faithfully manages the little he has been given will be promoted and trusted with greater responsibilities. But those who cheat with the little they have been given will not be considered trustworthy to receive more.
Luke 16:10 TPT
4. Then a poor widow came along and dropped in two little copper coins, worth about a penny. He called his disciples together and said to them, “I tell you that this poor widow put more in the offering box than all the others.
Mark 12:42-43 GNT
5. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
Proverbs 6:10-11 ESV
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Devotions by Chris Hendrix 