The Power of "Lack"

James 1:2-3 says, "Count it all joy, my brothers, whenever you face trails of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."



Not lacking anything. How often the Lord uses stress caused by our "lacking" something to untimately bring us to a position where we lack nothing!



To get to where we lack nothing, we must go through seasons where we lack something in order to change our life's water into wine. Fermentation is a death process. For there to be wine there must first be death before there can be a deeper meaning to life.



God's ultimate purpose is for us to be mature and complete, not lacking anything. To get there, the journey must be through seasons of lack. When the fermentation process is complete, however, we lack nothing. The wine is mature.

Sorrow lasts for the night, but joy comes in the morning. Every hardship is designed to mature us not destroy us. So count it all joy!