HE IS ABLE
Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.
Ephesians 3:20
Perhaps you feel that you have in times of holy boldness and sacred access asked large things of God, such as one could only ask of the Great King: and yet your asking has been too short a line to reach the bottom of divine ability. Our prayer at its best and boldest has many a boundary. It is limited often by our sense of need; we barely know what we want; we need to be taught what we should pray for, or we never ask correctly. We mistake our spiritual condition, our soul’s hunger is not keen enough, sin has taken the edge from our spiritual appetite, and therefore we cramp our prayers. But, blessed be God, He is not limited by our sense of need. His guest may ask for bread and water, but behold the feast He prepares.
Is there a single promise of God that any child of God perfectly understands? There is a meaning in the promises, a breadth, a length, a height, a depth, not compassed yet. God condescends to use human language, and to us the words mean silver, but He uses them in a golden sense. He never means less than He says, but He always means far more than we think He says. For this let us magnify the Lord. His power to bless is not bounded by our power to understand the blessing.
The promise here is emphatically that He is able to do above all that we think. Put together all that you have ever asked for. Heap it up, and then pile upon the top all that you have ever thought of concerning the riches of divine grace. What a mountain! Here we have hill on hill, as though Alp on Alp were heaped on end to build a staircase or a Jacob’s ladder to the very stars. Go on! Go on! It is no Babel tower you build, and yet its top will not reach to heaven. High as this pyramid of prayers may be piled, God’s ability to bless is higher still. Above all blessings that can be imagined that are useful and beneficial to us, He is able to do above it.
O Lord, help me to understand this; give me faith to grip this, and then to magnify and adore You. Amen.
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