Five-year-old Randy wanted a toy stagecoach for Christmas. While shopping with Mom, he found just the one he wanted. It was about 6" long and had cool wheels and dark brown plastic horses pulling it. “Mommy, I want this one. Pleeeease!” he begged. As young children sometimes do, he threw a tantrum, insisting that he get that stagecoach for Christmas. Mom said, “We’ll see,” and took him home.
Randy was sure he’d get what he asked for. Christmas morning came, and he opened the package confidently. Sure enough, it was the stagecoach he had begged for. He was so pleased. But then his older brother said, “You really did a dumb thing to insist on getting that coach. Mom bought you a much bigger one, but when you begged for that little one, she exchanged it!” Suddenly the small stagecoach didn’t seem so appealing.
Sometimes we’re like that with God. We pray about a specific need and tell Him how He ought to answer. We beg and plead—and God may even give us exactly what we ask for. But He may have had something better in mind.
Phillips Brooks once said, “Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger.”
Do not presume to know what’s best
When you begin to pray;
But say to God, “Your will be done,”
Then trust His perfect way.
Large asking results in large receiving.
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Back in April last year, I came across this in Our Daily Bread when Jess and I were worrying about not being able to get a home in time for our wedding; and were considering whether to start off with a 3-room flat instead. Looking at our empty-but-soon-to-be-lovely home now, this is what I have to say - God is REAL, God speaks to us, and God truly knows best! =)
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