God's Blank Check Book: a Quote by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

This is another one of my 2025 morning devotions, from A Treasury of Wisdom: a Daily Devotional Journal, that touched my heart, and I wanted to share it with you. Mrs. Cowman actually had gotten this beautiful piece from something (pastor) Dr. A. B. Simpson had written. But I think if we keep this in mind every day, we will never look at God's name "I am that I am" the same way again. Once more, I will break this down so you can see, more easily, how beautiful this is.

Mrs. Charles E. Cowman Quote from Dr. A. B. Simpson:

God gave Moses a blank check, and as life went forward for the next forty years, Moses kept filling in the blank with his special need.

He filled in fearlessness before Pharaoh.

He filled in guidance across the Red Sea.

He filled in manna for the whole population.

He filled in water from the rock.

He filled in guidance through the wilderness.

He filled in victory over the Amalek.

He filled in clear revelation in Sinai.

And so Moses, for the rest of his life, had little else to do than to go quietly alone, and taking God's blank check book, signed by God's name, I AM THAT I AM, wrote in I AM guidance; I AM bread. He presented the check and God honored it.

And whenever you come in to live upon God's plan as Moses from that moment did, you may absolutely trust God. And when you come down to the end you will say,

"Not one good thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you" (Joshua 23:14).

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I hope you find this as comforting and feel God's love and presence as much as I did when I read this. May you be richly blessed by all of God's blank checks from this point on.

In Jesus' powerful and holy name,

Patricia

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