In a field on the English countryside, G. K. Chesterton stood up from
where he had been sitting and exploded with laughter. His outburst was so
sudden and so loud that the cows could not take their eyes off him.
Just minutes before, the Christian writer and apologist had been
miserable. That afternoon he had been wandering the hills, sketching pictures
on brown paper using colored chalks. But he was dismayed to discover he had no
white chalk, which he considered to be essential to his artwork. Soon, though,
he began to laugh when he realized that the ground beneath him was porous
limestone—the earth’s equivalent of white chalk. He broke off a piece and
resumed drawing.
Like Chesterton, who realized he “was sitting on an immense warehouse of
white chalk,” believers have God’s unlimited spiritual resources within reach
at all times. “His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly
life through our knowledge of him” (2 Peter 1:3).
Maybe you feel you are lacking some important element necessary for godliness such as faith, grace, or wisdom. If you know Christ, you have everything you need and more. Through Jesus, you have access to the Father—the one who graciously provides believers with all things.
