Beth Guckenberger of Back2Back ministries shares in her devotional, Reckless Faith, about a time God's loving care was experienced in a big way. 

The Setting: An orphanage in Mexico. The Players: pre-school orphans, a group home director with a faith like George Muller, and leftovers from a random meat convention held earlier, across town. 

The Plot: Dinner time is coming up for the children and there's no food. Edgar the director knows a secret: there's nothing left for dinner that night but there's plenty of faith to go around. So, he gathers the children and asks them to pray. Little Joel is there, too, as outspoken as his 4-year-old heart for God is big, "Let's ask him for steak!" What a far cry from the usual beans, rice, and tortillas that Beth says is their staple diet.

Well, since you already know the players in this scene, you probably can guess what happens next. In a fashion that only God can orchestrate, Beth and her husband are involved unknowingly in God's plan to show Himself really big to hungry orphans and their fearless leader Edgar. And to the one who is not afraid to ask for steak. 

Yup. They got steak - the choice cuts, too! A freezer full. Beth 'just happened' upon the meat bonanza and 'just happened' to drop it off to an orphanage she knew about.

I cry as I lay the book down. And I won’t pick it back up again several days. You see, I’ve just been busted. I've been called out as one who settles for beans from the hand of man instead of asking for steak from the one who owns the cattle on a thousand hills.

And little Joel's proclamation just about does me in when I read how God brings steak when you'd be grateful for beans. How long have I not been looking for how God is already supplying my needs? How long have I been relying on man or self instead of God; looking outwards or inwards, instead of upwards? How long have I been thinking my problems are too big for God?

What is your too big? Who has been taking care of it? Are you like me, tired of stressing out about things that you know are too big for you to handle? Are you weary of manufacturing the solutions yourself, or looking to anyone but God for solutions?

How many times do I, while feeling overwhelmed at this or that, turn to some man-made solution? A bowl of beans, undercooked, unsatisfying. It shouldn't take me this long to realize that much of what is available when I look all around me are just opinions at best of so-called experts. And often, they give conflicting advice. When will I tire of hearing inflated claims that all it takes is the right partnership, the right strategy or gimmick to bring me the results I am seeking? When will I stop trying to tap into that elusive formula that would change everything? 

Yes, God has been with me all along, waiting to hear from child-like faith. When was the last time I asked Him what to do in a difficult situation? When was the last you asked Him?

I want to eat God's steak with Joel. How about you?

• Gail Heaton