“The Sovereign LORD showed me a vision. I saw him preparing to send a vast swarm of locusts over the land. This was after the king’s share had been harvested from the fields and as the main crop was coming up. In my vision the locusts ate every green plant in sight. Then I said, “O Sovereign LORD, please forgive us or we will not survive, for Israel is so small” (Amos 7:1-2, NLT).

These verses made me smile. Why? The destruction is set to come after the king’s portion has been harvested. Our provision is not dependent on the world’s supply. Our provision is not at the mercy of disasters, whether manmade or God-sent. Our King, our good Father, can take His portion off the top. The world is His and He’s in control. He can direct the disaster to protect His children. He can accomplish many purposes at once. He doesn’t get mad and send a disaster and forget about His children. He makes sure they are taken care of first.

Our King will always have a portion. He will never run out. God’s economy is not based on the world’s economy. The King’s people live in an oasis in the midst of the trials around them. In the Psalms, we have multiple promises of how God’s children, how those who fear the Lord, how those who trust in Him, will not lack any good thing and will be kept alive in famine and will eat and be satisfied. In Psalm 37, it says that the blameless will have an abundance in the time of famine.

That’s the Lord’s provision: the much from the little, the 5,000 fed from the meager rations. Our God can supply any need.