My foreign trips are becoming less cumbersome. Until the last few years, my major headache when I travelled was purchases to make for the members of my family – my wife and four children. Now, children are virtually all on their own; it is now a kind of reverse entry as they are the ones thinking of what to get me when they travel home. However, the lesson still remains; the fact that I was constrained by father’s love to give good things to my children. On many occasions, they never asked for anything; I simply got spurred by my love for them.

God is our Father… Keep in mind that there is nothing we ask that He cannot afford; and there is nothing that He gives that will in any way dent His fortune…God will not withhold anything good from us.

Jesus would like us to transpose what happens between a father and his children to how God relates with us as believers. God is our Father, and we have been given the liberty to approach Him with all our needs. Keep in mind that there is nothing we ask that He cannot afford; and there is nothing that He gives that will in any way dent His fortune. Our God is simply unlimited and inexhaustible! Ephesians 3:20 says that God can do exceedingly abundantly above what we ask or think. His power in us makes all things superfluous. Hannah asked God for one child, she ended up with five! That’s beyond what she asked or imagined. Jacob never really thought he could set his eyes again on Joseph, his beloved son. But he ended up seeing not only Joseph but also his children. Any austere impression we have of God is due to faulty theology. If we won’t deny our children of what they need and we can afford, we should be assured that God will not withhold anything good from us.