God Knows the Bottom of the Barrel

"Mother, I think God always hears when we scrape the bottom of the barrel," said a little boy to his mother one day. His mother was poor. They often used up their last stick of wood and their last bit of bread before they could tell where the next supply was to come from.

But they had so often been provided for in unexpected ways, just when they were most in need, that the little boy thought _God always heard when they scraped the bottom of the barrel_. This was only that little fellow's way of saying what Abraham said when he called the name of the place where God had delivered him, "Jehovah-Jireh."