All Your Eggs & Only One Basket

Eggs and Baskets

There was a very popular saying when I was a kid. It seems to have died out a bit now but it is still an appropriate piece of advice in almost any situation. “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” was the little bit of homespun wisdom that almost everyone used – especially if they didn’t really know what else to say! It’s a wee word of wisdom that Christians could do well to heed today.

In times ranging from even slight stress right up to heart attack territory, we seem to be very prone to grabbing the first almost viable solution and becoming reliant upon it. Sad thing is that the first ‘viable’ solution offered is often more self-reliant or other-people-reliant than God-reliant. God is not our first port of call. Prayer is a standby solution rather than first line of defence. Instead, we put all of our reliance on a somewhat nebulous ‘promise’ from a third party who may or may not fulfil.

Now, what does Gods Word say about this?

2 Peter 5:7 “Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”

Exodus 15:26 “For I am the Lord who heals you.”

Jeremiah 29:11 ”For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

Mark 16:17-19 “And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues;  they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

And most importantly -

Numbers 23:19 “God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?”

God’s Word is enough. Don’t put all of your eggs in man’s baskets – put them instead into God’s Word and His promises for you; for all of us.