What does it take to buy an ice cream cone?
Really big.
Many years ago, I heard Williams tell his story. Punctuated with his well-known humor, Williams told about how, when they had just bought a Rolls Royce and were driving it for the first time, he suddenly had a craving for ice cream. So he stopped at the local Dairy Queen and enjoyed an ice cream cone with his wife.
You don’t have to be able to afford a Rolls Royce to buy an ice cream cone. Dan’s resources extended vastly beyond what was needed to afford his craving or his needs.
God has blessed His children in a similar way. Our blessings greatly overshadow our needs.
We might think we have mountains to move in our lives, but our problems usually don’t rise to that scale. Yet, Jesus said, “… I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible,” Matthew 17:20b.
“From his abundance we have all received one gracious blessing after another,” John 1:16.
“Whatever is good and perfect comes down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens,” James 1:17.
“And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus,” Philippians 4:19.
“Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think,” Ephesians 3:20.
“For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength,” Philippians 4:13.
Kind of like sitting in a Rolls Royce eating an ice cream cone at Dairy Queen, we have vastly more resources in Christ than will ever be needed in this lifetime. God has gifted us with faith and He blesses us with mercy, and grace, and His endless, bottomless lovingkindness. He pours out His mercy, and His grace, and His love on us.
“By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence,” 2 Peter 1:3.
Instead of looking at life as being filled with burdens too big to bear, God has supplied us with a capacity in Christ bigger than needed. He never told us to go move a mountain, but He gave us a faith capable of doing so. He didn’t tell us to go do “everything,” yet in Christ, He has enabled us to be able to do “everything.”
What more do you want?
Scotty
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