“Go Easy!”

My six daughters sometimes gather around me, telling me how they need shoes, money for music lessons and for many other things. Sometimes I have been compelled to say, “Go easy! I am not made out of money. We will just have to get what we can afford and go without the rest.”

But I never read in God’s Word where He ever told anybody, “Go easy! I don’t have very much. I have already strained Myself giving to others. I cannot give as much as you ask.” No, no! One of our greatest sins about praying is that we do not ask for enough. We do not take what God is willing to give. . . . God forgive us our little, stingy, unbelieving prayers!
~ John R. Rice