Whoever is wise, let him heed these
things and consider the great love of the LORD. Psalm 107:43
Since God
is infinite, whatever He is must be infinite also; that is, it must be without
any actual or conceivable limits. The moment we allow ourselves to think of God
as having limits, the one of whom we are thinking is not God but someone or
something less than and different from Him. To think rightly of God we must
conceive of Him as being altogether boundless in His goodness, mercy, love,
grace and in whatever else we may properly attribute to the Deity. It is not
enough that we acknowledge God's infinite resources; we must believe also that
He is infinitely generous to bestow them. The first is not too great a strain
on our faith. Even the deist will admit that the Most High God, possessor of
heaven and earth, must be rich beyond the power of man to conceive. But to
believe that God is a giver as well as a possessor takes an advanced faith and
presupposes that there has been a divine revelation to that effect which gives
validity to our expectations. Which indeed there has been. We call this
revelation the Bible. Believing all this, why are we Christians so poverty
stricken? I think it is because we have not learned that God's gifts are meted
out according to the taker, not according to the giver. Though almighty and
all-wise, God yet cannot pour a great gift into a small receptacle.
"Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give
him a snake instead? Or if he asks for
an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you
then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how
much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask
him!" Luke 11:11-13
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