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Feb 21, 2026 06:00am

No Lack

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The young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but they who seek the Lord shall not be in want of any good thing. (Psalm 34:10)

When I was a boy, my two brothers and I slept in the same bedroom on beds my father had made. After we left for school each day, my mother would kneel by each of our beds (and my sister’s) and pray for each of us and our day.

Over the years, God gave her specific, personal scripture promises for each of her children. Psalm 34:8-10 was mine. I found it marked in her Bible, but she also would often refer to it as she talked with me, reminding me that God would provide fully for me—that I would not be in want for any good thing—if I would “taste and see that the Lord is good” and take my refuge in Him.

74 YEARS

As I was reading this passage again this morning, as I have done thousands of times, my heart was thrilled with the reminder that this promise has been my exact experience for over seven decades now. “No lack” in every dimension is my honest and glad testimony.

I can take no credit for this. It belongs elsewhere.

First, to the Lord who is the great Promiser and sufficient Provider. Every good and perfect gift has come from above. Who could make such a promise except God? And who could fulfill it so completely?

Second, to a believing mother (and dad). They entrusted their children into the hands of a perfectly faithful Father. They believed God for us. They did not trust in their own ability to provide for us and to raise us, but His.

This promise has been fulfilled in my life through God’s faithfulness to my parents as they trusted Him. It was not my faith that provided this avenue of provision for me, but first and foremost, it was theirs. And also, any heritage of faith I’ve received, any believing that I have done was learned at their knees. They taught me to trust God. It was easier for me than most, I believe, for it was modeled so clearly. I watched my mother face and pass her greatest test of faith with her dying breath and my father do the same.

Hallelujah for a perfect God. Hallelujah for a faithful heritage of believing parents. May I pass the same heritage of faith, by God’s grace, to my children and children’s children. And hallelujah for an abundant, fully “no lack” life and the prospect of exceedingly, abundantly beyond all I can ask or think for all of eternity.