Where Are The Potatoes?

Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.
(Colossians 4:2 – ESV)

The man walks down the street and he sees another man, one apparently in need. The other man says he hasn’t eaten in days. The first man decides he will help him, and feels led to give the man more than enough. He wants to lavish a little love on the poor man, and instead of just handing him a few dollars or buying him a sandwich, he goes and brings back a steak for the man to eat. The man, looking with disdain at the one who brought the steak to him, says, “Hey, man, where are the potatoes?”

Well now, how often do we see this today? Not just from our young ones, etc., but how often in ourselves, even as we supposedly mature? Too often we refuse to even try and work with what we’ve been given. If we have made an honest assessment of things and something more is needed, then we should ask for more, sure, but we must be thankful for what we have before we ask for what we need. And were we all to be truthful, we would all have to make confession to the fact that many times what we think we need is really only what we want, and not truly a need. And sometimes the thing we most need is the thing we are reluctant to receive, namely His abundant and abounding grace.

When you are hungry, thirsty, in trouble or in any kind of need, which is always, indeed, make sure you are working with what you already have. Don’t bring home a failing grade on your report card, all the while complaining about the teacher, when you won’t even bring home your homework! Don’t go crying out for lack of potatoes when a steak is right there waiting for you to eat. Yes, we all need grace and more grace, but as Christians, it is abounding toward us with all love. Look for it, and live in it, not for what you don’t see yet. It will come when it is truly needed.

“Living For Today With An Eye For Tomorrow”©