More Than We Can Think

I had some stock. It was going for sixty-two or sixty-three cents per share, and I wanted to sell. I gathered my courage and set a sell price of sixty-five cents. I was a little nervous. Would it go up that high? Or would it go down, as it had been doing for some months? I waited another day, and the price went up to sixty-six cents. Of course, mine sold for sixty-five.

After I’d sold that, I wanted to buy other stock that was selling for about seven dollars and seventy-five cents. Again I gathered my courage, and set a buy-in of seven twenty-five. Risky. That’s a big drop, and maybe it wouldn’t go down that low. It dropped to six ninety-something. I’d bought at seven twenty-five.

Then I needed to sell just some of that stock, because I needed to use some of the money—or so I thought. I set my sell price on some of that stock at seven forty-five. I had to really grit my teeth over that, because the price was hanging out at least five percent below that, and (I thought) I had a deadline. Every time I thought about changing my sell price, though, I remembered that I was not going to move in fear, and that the Lord would move if I would wait for Him. So I waited. Friday, when the market closed, the stock was at seven dollars even. Monday, when the market opened, my few shares sold for seven seventy-four.

Do you see a pattern there? Every time I thought I was taking a big risk, and every time I thought I might be asking for something impossible, the Lord did far more than I could think. I thought I was taking a risk to wait for sixty-five cents to sell out; I could have set my sights higher, at sixty-six. Seven and a quarter seemed impossible; in fact, less than seven was possible. I could have sold every share I owned for seven seventy-four, and then bought back in that same day at seven and a quarter.

If ever I have seen evidence that God is able to do more than we can ask or think, I’m seeing it here. It doesn’t seem to matter how big a risk I think I’m taking, He still goes beyond that.

Was there ever greater proof that we don’t pay proper attention to the stuff we rattle off by rote? Oh, sure, we all know that God is able to do far above all that we could ask, hope, or think. We all know that. But do we recognize that we’re involved, also? (He does this by His power that works in us.) And do we recognize that we’ll never see Him go beyond what we can ask or think if we don’t go to the edge of what we can ask or think?

It’s only as we push the limits of what we can think that He goes beyond.

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