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Not everyone lives near a 24-hour Walmart.
There are times we run out of food, and we must borrow from our neighbor. Three eggs, perhaps a cup of sugar, or maybe a loaf of bread. That’s all we want. It’s not too much to ask, is it?
Who would turn us down?
When we pray, in comparison to the overflowing storehouses of God, we’re asking for small taters. We only want the little bit that God has extra, no matter how big it seems to us. A new car to replace our old junker? God can do that and not notice the decrease in his storehouse. Help with our IRS bill? Yeah, God can do that, too.
There’s no amount we can ask for that will daze God with our audacity. He has more than enough to meet our needs. We can borrow all the bread we need and never run out again.
Luke 11:5-8 reveals Jesus’ take on the subject of borrowed bread.
And [Jesus] said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything’?
I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs.
God has the storehouses. He has all the bread we need. All the cars. All the cash. There’s no end to what he can supply. It’s up to us to rise in our need, call upon God—again and again, if necessary—until our needs are met in him.
In the moment of our greatest need is when we need to petition God until he releases his goodness unto us.
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