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Divine Power Is Immeasureable
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We can't measure a spring. It's this spring-like quality of divine power, this immeasurable quality, that Paul speaks of. We can bring vessels to a spring and keep on filling them until we've filled them all, and all we're doing is making the spring stronger. Let's pray, "Lord, make me a spring, where people just keep coming back and drinking." God is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think. We can't exhaust a spring. If it's a real spring that God has placed in the hillside, it will be right there -- "putting it out".

We can read in 2 Kings, about God's "welfare program". A widow, whose husband had died, needed to get on welfare. She didn't have any support for herself or her sons. Her husband died---leaving a lot of bills---so she went to the prophet. (That's a good place to go. We have "factories turning out preachers", but there aren't many prophets being turned out.) She went to Elisha and said, "Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen." (2 Kings 4:1) According to the Law, they could take her two sons and put them in slavery to pay for her bills. Elisha asked her: "What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not anything in the house, save a pot of oil. Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy, neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few. And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full. "So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out. And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed. Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest" (verses 2-7).

Some look aghast when you preach such things. An God has a hard time working when believers don't even believe that God is able to do exceeding abundantly above that which we ask or think. The ability of God is beyond our prayers, our thoughts and our imagination. God is asking us to "stretch out a little". Someone may say, "I can't imagine such things." I know. That's what God is wanting us to do, stretch it out a little. He wants us to have a better imagination and stretch it out to some of the extreme sublimities offered in God's Word. [ The End ]

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