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“A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.” –
Charles Spurgeon
Benjamin Franklin wrote,“Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.” When we think about PORTION we usually think – a part of a whole; an amount, a section or piece of something divided between two or more people; or a part or share of an estate given to an heir. When going to worship God in sacrifice at Shiloh, a man named Elkanah would give portions of the meat to his wife Peninnah and all her sons and daughters, “But to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, and the Lord had closed her womb.” (1 Samuel 1:5) Though Elkanah’s gesture of love was nice, Hannah sought God fervently in prayer for a child. The LORD opened Hannah’s womb and gave her a son, the prophet Samuel. Isaiah 61:7 prophesied, “Instead of your shame you will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace you will rejoice in your inheritance.” The recompense of a double portion for your hardships is pretty nice, isn’t it?
There is another meaning for this word that is even more satisfying. PORTION means a person’s future as allotted by fate; one’s destiny or lot in life. The psalmist Asaph declared:
21When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered, 22I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you. 23 Yet I am always with You; You hold me by my right hand. 24You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory. 25Whom have I in heaven but You?And earth has nothing I desire besides You. 26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. (Psalm 73:21-26)
God is my PORTION or chalaq (Hebrew): my tract – an area of indefinite extent, my territory, my legacy, my inheritance, and my reward. Abram had just rescued Lot from Sodom when God made this pronouncement, “After
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these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.” (Genesis 15:1) Abram and Sarai had been barren into their old age. He cried out his longing for an heir to the LORD. God not only promised that He would be his portion, but that his reward would be very great. Someone from he and Sarai’s own flesh and blood would be the heir…and he would not just have one, “5He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars-if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” 6Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.” (Genesis 15:5-6)
Sometimes we feel barren, ashamed, rejected and alone. It is a blessing to know that despite the circumstances or how we feel…God sees us, He cares, and He Himself will be our PORTION. He will bless us beyond what we can imagine, ask or think!
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