I am at a point in my life where I am learning that since I do not have enough substance/wherewithal to make happen that which I desire, then I will have to use what I have (which is rather insignificant and not enough) as the seed which will have to go into the ground, decompose and sprout up with the actual substance that I am believing God for.

At the wedding in Cana (John 2: 1-9), the miracle worker was in attendance and he did the miracle in a very simple way. Our God is not complex at all. He made use of water (an element already present at the venue of the wedding). Likewise, the indebted widow (2 Kings 4: 1-7), she was asked to use the very same pot of oil, which she already had.

It behoves us as believers to heed God’s instruction in every circumstance that we find ourselves and listen for the simplest instructions. Having heard the instruction, then we must be willing to obey. We must never ever disobey or neglect what He asks us to do. It would have been easy for the wedding attendants to despise “ordinary water” and for the widow to relegate her “small pot of oil” but in these little things, which they had in their hands (and were willing to let go), were the actual big miracles that they needed.

Further reading:

1Corinthians 15:36-38 How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. (NIV)

Ecclesiastes 11: 5 As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things. (NIV)